Broad Subject Fields

Famous quotes containing the words broad, subject and/or fields:

    Lepidus. What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?
    Antony. It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.
    Jane Rule (b. 1931)

    If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
    —W.C. Fields (1879–1946)