Guests Included Writer

Famous quotes containing the words guests, included and/or writer:

    Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
    Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)

    One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
    Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.
    George Steiner (b. 1929)