#ay

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

#arts #desire #humans #moment #perfected

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#constantly #epic #epic poetry #form #general

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#archaeological #artistic #down #epic #extraordinary

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#essence #even #hero #play #regeneration

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#another #bloom #former #fun #harold

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#been #charged #clients #cynical #defend

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little. ↗

— Morris L. West

#faith #prayer #faith

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#comes #complain #continue #effect #especially