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A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.


Joe Queenan


#books #essays #humor #life #reading

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.


Susan Sontag


#philosophy #photography #photography-quotes #nature

Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt.


Jenny Holzer


#jenny-holzer #food

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.


Sharon Olds


#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.


James Wolcott


#high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.


Franka Potente


#before #book #coming #essays #fitness

I don't like writing essays or theory.


Adrian Mitchell


#i #like #theory #writing

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.


Chuck Klosterman


#basically #book #book writing #conscious #entertaining

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.


Jose Saramago


#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed






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