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I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about film

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the...

Quote by James Payn about excess, difficulties, literary critic, writing, man, being

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it;...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, quality, good, good luck

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist...

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when the electric light came in. What nonsense!

Quote by Edith Wharton about opinion, light, day

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