Post Colonial Critics Quotes

#1. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?

John Cowper Powys

#2. When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Thandie Newton

#3. I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

Isabel Allende

#4. So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

Aldous Huxley

#5. This is about Ryke. We can't burn his place of love." I snort. "His place of love is between our sister's legs.

Krista Ritchie

#6. All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love
and most of all, an audience!

Edward Abbey

#7. There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.

Douglas Kennedy

#8. In my plain thoughts I don't know what else is needed to make this the happiest as well as the most respect-worthy situation in the world - except
for a taste for literature, to throw a little variety and interest into conversation, and some surplus money to give to the needy and to buy books ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Helena Bonham Carter

#10. My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. It is a mistake to seek in fantasies the key to concrete behaviour; for fantasies are created and cherished as fantasies. The little girl who dreams of violation with mingled horror and acquiescence does not really wish to be violated and if such a thing should happen it would be a hateful calamity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. Well, darkness with humor ... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele