#comment

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#book #commentary #disappointed #front #happened

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#commentary #devastating #infrastructure #iraq #money

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator. ↗

— James Shirley

#commentator #did #honor #overpaid

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary. ↗

— Allen Tate

#commentary #determined #gets #honor #i

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#decay #english-literature #king #poetry #power

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love

Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them. ↗

— John Steiner

#social-commentary #humor

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#political-tags #politics #social #social-change #social-commentary