Sean

“Our reaction against the sentimentality embodied in Victorian and post-Victorian writing was so resolute writers came to believe that the further from sentimentality we got, the truer the art. That was a mistake. ...if you are not risking sentimentality, you are not close to your inner self.”
― Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

“Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“Years later, while imprisoned as coalition detainees, some of Zarqawi’s senior lieutenants described the AQI leader’s desire to incite a global sectarian war by comparing him to the Joker, Heath Ledger’s character in the 2008 movie, “The Dark Knight,” whose central desire was “to watch the world burn.”30”
― United States Government US Army, The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006

“Don't confuse honours with achievement.”
― Zadie Smith