Signposts Literature Quotes & Sayings

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws — Lucinda Riley

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. — Louis Kronenberger

The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself. — Rajneesh

They came generally from people writing theses on fantasy or on the Dark Is Rising books. They were full of questions I'd never thought about and false assumptions that I didn't want to think about. They would ask me in great detail for, say, the specific local and mythical derivations of my Greenwitch, a leaf-figure thrown over a Cornish cliff as a fertility sacrifice, and I would have to write back and say, "I'm terribly sorry; I made it all up." They told me I echoed Hassidic myth, which I hadn't read, and the Mormon suprastructure, which I'd never even heard of. They saw symbols and buried meanings and allegories everywhere. I'd thought I was making a clear soup, but for them it was a thick mysterious stew.

from "In Defense of the the Artist" in Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature (1983) — Susan Cooper

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another. — Stephen Hopkins

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy. — Abdul Kalam

You have to close quickly, you have to eliminate time and space and you have to try to deny them the puck. When you're playing with it, it forces them out of their rhythm and forces them to play defense, which they obviously don't want to do. — Chris Pronger

I have no time to judge anyone because I am so busy to love everyone. — Debasish Mridha