Direct Bone Attachment

Famous quotes containing the words direct, bone and/or attachment:

“In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

“the bone dry voices of the peepers
as they throb like advertisements.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)