The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. Its a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. – Elizabeth Drew
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: theyre casting, theyre dressing the scene, theyre working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and theyre also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre