Home Subjects Archives Quotations Forums
 Top 100 •  The Book •  Contact A Web site by Paul McFedries   

Stephen Vizinczey

WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
—Stephen Vizinczey, Mind of a Mass Murderer

Posted on February 11, 2003 at 10:39 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
—Stephen Vizinczey, A Writer's Ten Commandments

Posted on January 30, 2003 at 10:15 PM

 Words About Words:
Quotations Index

Author Index

 Recent posts:
  returnment
  tipping element
  "mug me" earphones
  renoviction
  philanthrocapitalism
  reverse Bradley effect
  silent run
  myco-diesel
  punditariat
  liquor-cycle
 Select an archive:
  A B C D E F G H I
  J K L M N O P Q R
  S T U V W X Y Z #
 Other links:
Word Spy Citations

My Favorite Words

My Neologisms

 Search Word Spy:

Enter your search text:

 Subscribe to Word Spy:
Get Word Spy by RSS


Get Word Spy by email:


Powered by FeedBlitz



Word Spy on Twitter
 Lingua Techna Posts:



Copyright © 1995 - 2013 Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited