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Quotable

A collection of 10 posts

On Books & Writing

"It Can Entrance You For a Moment..."

"Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope."

On Movies & Media

The Quotable Renshaw

One of this film critics' favorite quotable quotes comes from Roger Ebert: "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it." But now I'll carry another knockout definition of criticism in my back pocket to help clarify matters...

On Movies & Media

If Your House Were Burning Down...

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On Movies & Media

"... the best service anyone could render to art..."

A new quote for my collection of insights on faith and art Orson Welles: If you try to probe, I’ll lie to you. Seventy-five percent of what I say in interviews is false. I’m like a hen protecting her eggs. I cannot talk. I must protect my work.

On Books & Writing

Christianity Today's Knockout Interview with Marilynne Robinson

This is the most thrilling stuff I've read at Christianity Today in a while. Great interview. I wish they'd made this a cover story. It's one of the most important conversations this magazine could offer its audience. But according to this, it's

Pope Benedict XVI

World Cup Pope

What does Pope Benedict XVI think of soccer? Now we know. And his insights give new meaning to the term "GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!"

The Auralia Thread

"...the most beautiful book in English..."

What book did C.S. Lewis call "almost the most beautiful book in English"? Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations. I've heard about Lewis's love for this volume many times, but have never gotten around to tracking it down. It seems Traherne also influenced Thomas

On Books & Writing

Who's right?

So... I stumbled onto these two quotes within a few seconds of one another... "In order to write about life, first you must live it!" - Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), writer, journalist But then: * Ned Rorem, Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Composer Which is it? Come on. Time's

On Books & Writing

To Savor or To Save?

E.B. White, in an interview with The New York Times in 1969, said: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world

The Auralia Thread

C.S. Lewis explains.

C.S. LEWIS: What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects — with their Christianity latent. And that's why so many of the most important, insightful, imaginative Christians who write will never be published so long as they