Phillip Lopate Citas

• The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

  Phillip Lopate

  Beach, Fun, Work

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books

  47 Copiar cita

• A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

  Phillip Lopate

  Lonely, Confusion, Darkness

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copiar cita

• Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

  Phillip Lopate

  Conversation, Dilemma, Essays

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  10 Copiar cita

• The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

  Phillip Lopate

  Honesty, Conflict, Wit

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  12 Copiar cita

• Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

  Phillip Lopate

  Narrators, Trustworthy, Confession

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copiar cita

• Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

  Phillip Lopate

  Fun, Writing, Having Fun

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copiar cita

• I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

  Phillip Lopate

  Secret, Judgment, Enough

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

  6 Copiar cita

• Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

  Phillip Lopate

  Humility, Writing, Forever

  9 Copiar cita

• The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.

  Phillip Lopate

  Lonely, Important, Example

  8 Copiar cita

• En la mejor no ficción, me parece, siempre se es consciente de que se está trabajando con una mente flexible. La trama de la no ficción consiste en los giros y vueltas de un proceso mental que se desarrolla por sí mismo.

  Phillip Lopate

  Mind, Twists, Plot

  Phillip Lopate (2013). “To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copiar cita

• I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

  Phillip Lopate

  Expectativas

  6 Copiar cita

• The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

  Phillip Lopate

  Novelists, Might, Wonderful

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copiar cita

• El hedonismo puede ser una respuesta racional a una vida difícil.

  Phillip Lopate

  Difficult, Hedonism, Rational

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  18 Copiar cita

• It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too many names packed in our brains.

  Phillip Lopate

  Names, Brain, Example

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copiar cita

• En la obra nueva, necesitamos ver la sombra, por tenue que sea, del esfuerzo literario anterior.

  Phillip Lopate

  Effort, Shadow, Needs

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copiar cita

• The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

  Phillip Lopate

  Discrimination, Desirable

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

  4 Copiar cita

• Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

  Phillip Lopate

  Creativity, People, Treats

  11 Copiar cita

• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

  Phillip Lopate

  Running, Party, Night

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

  6 Copiar cita

• I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

  Phillip Lopate

  Able, Satisfaction, Fortunate

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copiar cita

• I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.

  Phillip Lopate

  Writing, Thinking, Citizens

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copiar cita

• If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.

  Phillip Lopate

  Shapes, My Family, Bent

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copiar cita

• My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.

  Phillip Lopate

  Daughter, Wife, Breakfast

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  9 Copiar cita

• Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress.

  Phillip Lopate

  Stress, School, People

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copiar cita

• Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.’

  Phillip Lopate

  Children, Lying, Adults

  4 Copiar cita

• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  7 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Dinty W. Moore

Lee Gutkind

Max Beerbohm

Patricia Hampl

Michael Dirda

Vivian Gornick

Colm Toibin

Annie Dillard