Quotes for All
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that’s become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children. Emma Donoghue
I’ve read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn’t, since hers was simply a companion to my own. Elizabeth Kostova
Anywhere, anytime, I’d sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. Edward Abbey
It’s fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all the tropes, and you know all the expressions. Doug Benson
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes–articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director’s work … Read more
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired … Read more
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It’s so rich as a trope – the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience. Anne Waldman
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I’ve been close to. Anne Waldman
I don’t think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There’s very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There’s an elegant quality to the wild mind. Anne Waldman