
„I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book“
— Jeff Lindsay, buch Dearly Devoted Dexter
Quelle: Dearly Devoted Dexter
— Jeff Lindsay, buch Dearly Devoted Dexter
Quelle: Dearly Devoted Dexter
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert
Things the Germans Lack, 51
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
— Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
— Alice A. Bailey esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880 - 1949
Quelle: The Light of the Soul (Yoga Sutras of Patanjali) (1927), p. 4
— Joseph Heller American author 1923 - 1999
As quoted in "Heller's legacy will be 'Catch-22' ideas" at CNN (13 December 1999) http://archives.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/13/heller/index.html
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
— William Zinsser writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922 - 2015
Introduction, p. viii.
On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)
— Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls
Quelle: City of Lost Souls
— John Barnes, buch Earth Made of Glass
Earth Made of Glass (1998)
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
Quelle: Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988), p. 12
Kontext: As a scholar [Allan Bloom] intends to enlighten us, and as a writer he has learned from Aristophanes and other models that enlightenment should also be enjoyable. To me, this is not the book of a professor, but that of a thinker who is willing to take the risks more frequently taken by writers. It is risky in a book of ideas to speak in one’s own voice, but it reminds us that the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal. … Academics, even those describing themselves as existentialists, very seldom offer themselves publicly and frankly as individuals, as persons.
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Response to criticism of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, as quoted in "20Q: Camille Paglia" by Warren Kalbacker in Playboy magazine (October 1991) http://www.playboy.co.uk/article/16659/20q-camille-paglia; also in Gauntlet # 4 (1992), p. 133
Kontext: It was intended to please no one and to offend everyone. The entire process of the book was to discover the repressed elements of contemporary culture, whatever they are, and palpate them. One of the main premises was to demonstrate that pornography is everywhere in major art. Art history as written is completely sex free, repressive and puritanical. I want precision and historical knowledge, but at the same time, I try to zap it with pornographic intensity.
— Bret Easton Ellis American novelist 1964
On The Rules of Attraction
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=571852
— Nick Hornby, buch A Long Way Down
Quelle: A Long Way Down
— Jerome Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church 345 - 420
Letter 107
Letters
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
— Ba Jin Chinese novelist 1904 - 2005
Preface to The Autumn in the Spring (May 1932) http://www.learn-chinese.org/modernprose1/bachun/chunt01.htm
Kontext: In the past several years, my hard work, my books which I wrote through blood and tears, and the purpose of my life all has been focused on: helping everyone to have a spring, so that everyone's heart will be bright, everyone will have a happy life, and everyone will have the freedom to develop in any way they want. I aroused people to have thirst for, thirst for brightness; I put a cause in front of people, a cause which is worthy of people's devotion. But all of my hard work was destroyed by another power. After arousing a young soul, it only made him or her suffer more unbearable trampling torment.
— Sherman Alexie Native American author and filmmaker 1966
— Judy Blume American children's writer 1938
Quelle: Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
— El Lissitsky Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect 1890 - 1941
c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
A Letter from Cuba (1934)
Kontext: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Kontext: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.