Quotes Tagged With :welt

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since....

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual,....

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest....

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth....

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne....

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how....

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression....

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's....

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions....