Morality Play Barry Unsworth Quotes & Sayings

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. — Albert Camus

Joshua is glaring at me with angry eyebrows. I use my brainwaves to transmit an insult to him, which he receives and pulls himself up straight. — Sally Thorne

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church. — Vaughn J. Featherstone

If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless. — Frederick Lenz

You are the only person who can make you happy and whole. You do not have another half out there waiting to be discovered. — Raphael Zernoff

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again. — Anna Deavere Smith

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. — Colin Trevorrow

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately. — Jean De La Bruyere

The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities. — Chad Harbach

Our lives are so short and during that short period there is nothing to learn about the whole field of the psyche, which is the movement of memory; we can only observe it. Observe without any movement of thought, observe without time, without past knowledge, without the observer who is the essence of the past. Just watch. Watch those clouds shaping and reshaping, watch the trees, the little birds. It is all part of life. When you watch attentively, with diligence, there is nothing to learn; there is only that vast space, silence and emptiness, which is all-consuming energy. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century by William W. Hunter — William W. Hunter