Guide Plate

Famous quotes containing the words guide and/or plate:

    They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey
    Yet never partake of the treat—
    Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
    Pale ravener of horrible meat.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.
    Jan Clausen (b. 1943)