James Fenton Quotes

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1949

Topics

WritingOpinionYouCreateNumbers

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

LoveGreatStartImpossibleFace

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

ArtWorldChooseBackTurnMeans

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.

Matthew Desmond

LifeNatureDepressionFaceLook

I am an early riser.

Sue Hubbell

I AmEarlyAm

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

Ron Suskind

BossSomeoneLossResultYouBad

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

Mary Dillon

CommunicationFace-To-FaceFan

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

LifeFaithDeathDoubtNothing

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Jon Secada

MeManagerOutContractGotEnglish

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

LifePeopleLanguageQuietLiving

I probably don't have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does - I just probably have a stranger one.

Dean Ambrose

InternetMoreStrangerBiggerJust

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

Chris Crutcher

LifeWritingDoingEarlyOldYears

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci

ArroganceYouStopAlwaysSomething

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