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  • Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Ryan Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Disease Quotes
  • The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Hate Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes