Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
