“ He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god. Roman Payne
“ If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly… Ernest Hemingway
“ Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religi… Jeffrey Tayler
“ There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory Douglas M. Laurent
“ I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought t… C.S. Lewis
“ It's terrible to have to fear that your powers will activate at any given moment. Especially when you draw close to people... and find that your only choice is to pull away. It's overwhelming when you… Zechariah Barrett
“ This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or pla… Susan Sontag
“ ...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?... John Geddes
“ In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (… Thomas Henry Huxley
“ You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small.""Then what?" I ask."Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in."I consider this for a… Christina Baker Kline
“ In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values whe… Flannery O'Connor
“ On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade.The inside flame burns evenly and is of the same quality as all the rest—hence all of us are equal in the… Vera Nazarian
“ If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. Baruch Spinoza
“ Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days--Carol's song--and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in yo… Joe Hill
“ What does Éloa mean?”He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”“You wouldn’t have.”“Was he a fallen angel?… Sarah MacLean
“ I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. Margaret Atwood
“ Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
