Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Margaret Atwood
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into... →
W. H. Auden
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven... →
Saint Augustine
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing... →
Paul Auster
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once... →
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that... →
In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define... →
Richard Avedon