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fiction science-fiction conventions
China Mieville I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
fiction geek fantasy
China Mieville I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
China Mieville One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction narrative moments
Edith Wharton Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
fiction literature jazz
David Brin Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
fiction science-fiction interest
Denis Leary Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
fiction-stories world common
Kurt Vonnegut What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.
fiction literature truth-is
Charlotte Lennox Truth is not always injured by fiction.
literature civility
Charles Dickens The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
literature potatoes poultry
Charles Dickens Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
Charles Dickens I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
Charles Caleb Colton If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
literature prudence
Charles Caleb Colton There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
Charles Caleb Colton The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Charles Caleb Colton Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
Charles Dickens We are so very 'umble.
jazz funk ifs
Chris Carter I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
jazz form miles
Cassandra Wilson Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
jazz instruments
Charlie Parker You've got to learn your instrument.
jazz emotion language
Charles Mingus Jazz is the language of the emotions.
jazz
Charles Mingus Everything I do is Mingus.
jazz scottish classical-music
Edgar Meyer Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.
jazz great-american blues-music
Edgar Winter As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
jazz anything-is-possible
Bill Frisell To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
jazz players trombone
Ben Jaffe They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.