Work Polemic Quotes & Sayings

The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods. — Bayard Taylor

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book. — Kate DiCamillo

Interestingly, slushie ingestion not only delayed the point at which the subjects reached a critically high core body temperature, but also allowed a higher tolerable core body temperature before exhaustion was reached. In other words, the slushie let them start colder and get hotter. — Matt Fitzgerald

And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word is so fucking big and loud, it's the only thing anyone ever hears when your name is spoken.
And whenever that happens to us, all the other words that make us the same disappear in its shadow. — Andrew Smith

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors — Jorge Luis Borges

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. — Richard Meier

I think of myself as a very lazy author. — Neil Gaiman

Dude, innapropriate. Don't talk about your friend's Dad's junk. — Melissa Keil