#eve

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#every #fathers #friends #generation #grandfathers

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #describe #every #feel #good

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#babylon #big #biggest #different #ever

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. ↗

— Frances Power Cobbe

#elevation #every #must #old #old story

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? ↗

— Edvard Munch

#developed #go #technique #why

I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#ever #i #name #television #want

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

#best #everything #feel #fictions #happens

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ↗

— Alice Munro

#around #day #else #fitted #had

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#always #annoyed #bear #black #brunt

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#bring #hands #never #peace #rise