Kostin Eft Quotes

#1. I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

Philip Kitcher

#2. The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Brian Eno

#3. I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

Rachael Taylor

#4. When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

William Butler Yeats

#5. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own ... always comes home to you.

Stephen King

#6. I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

Andy Cohen

#7. I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.

Sarah Weiner

#8. You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With

L.M. Montgomery

#9. When there is choice, don't need to stick with one. When betrayed, don't need to cry, just look for another.

Nutan Bajracharya

#10. One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Richelle Mead

#11. The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

Dennis O'Neil

#12. All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish were so adept at doing.

Benjamin Black

#13. Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore