Quotes by Frederic Tuten - Page 1

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Affair
Years
Years Ago
Copy Quote
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Poetry Is
Said
Way
Copy Quote
If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Animal
Dark
Thinking
Copy Quote
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Contemporary Fiction
Depth
Stories
Copy Quote
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Culture
Problem
Thinking
Copy Quote
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
House
People
Years
Copy Quote
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.
Frederic Tuten / Novelist
Book
Editors
Writing
Copy Quote

Related Novelist Authors

George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Zoran Drvenkar
Novelist
Wednesday, Jul 19, 1967
Zia Haider Rahman
Novelist
Zelda Fitzgerald
Novelist
Tuesday, Jul 24, 1900
Wednesday, Mar 10, 1948
Zakes Mda
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist
Saturday, Oct 25, 1975
Zachary Lazar
Novelist
Yxta Maya Murray
Novelist
Yury Olesha
Novelist
Friday, Mar 03, 1899
Tuesday, May 10, 1960
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Novelist
Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Yasmine Galenorn
Novelist
Xiaolu Guo
Novelist
Wu Cheng'en
Novelist
Wright Morris
Novelist
Thursday, Jan 06, 1910
Saturday, Apr 25, 1998
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Novelist
Tuesday, May 07, 1867
Saturday, Dec 05, 1925

View All Novelist Quotes

Top Authors

Steven Wright
Comedian
Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
Wayne Dyer
Author
Friday, May 10, 1940
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Nelson Mandela
Former President Of South Africa
Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
Thursday, Dec 05, 2013
Pope Francis
Thursday, Dec 17, 1936
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890
Thomas Jefferson
3Rd US President
Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Monday, May 03, 1469
Tuesday, Jun 21, 1527
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
Martin Luther
Monk
Saturday, Nov 10, 1483
Monday, Feb 18, 1546
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
Robert Frost
Poet
Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963
Voltaire
Writer
Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
Saturday, May 30, 1778

View All Authors

Frederic Tuten Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Novelist Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Novelist Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page