Famous quotes containing the words ruskin and/or wrote:
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)