Home » Quote » William Makepeace Thackeray » „The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.“ „The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.“ — William Makepeace Thackeray Related quotes „The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.“ — Ludwig Wittgenstein „And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.“ — Elizabeth Barrett Browning „We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive.“ — Carl Sagan „A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.“ — Max Planck „It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.“ — Anaïs Nin „Familiar habit makes for indolence.“ — Hermann Hesse
„The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.“ — William Makepeace Thackeray