(3 quotes found)
“[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails.”
Susan Sontag
“The object is to learn how to deaden the ball. We're not so much concerned with manipulating it line to line as much as we are just killing the ball.”
Doug Mansolino
“'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.”
Walter Dwight
