Criticare Pulse Quotes & Sayings

When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'
not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you. — Daisy Goodwin

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? — Thomas Carlyle

never be, try to become — Nichelle Walker

adults usually think you can only feel real love when you're fifty or something and have lived through a war. — Callie James

I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned it that way. I couldn't quite tell her about the daily beauty, how I didn't tire of seeing 6 a.m. light on the telephone wires. When I was younger, I'd expected to grow out of the gap between the self I knew and what I heard myself say. I'd expected to feel more like one single person. — Michael Cunningham

I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready. — Steve Martin

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned. — Monica Johnson

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy. — Seneca.

Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't. — Lisa Unger

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. — Stephen Jay Gould

[ ... ]the stately and slow-moving Turk,
With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm. — William Wordsworth