Negative Surface

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or surface:

    “Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
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