Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

American Author

Gunter Grass

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.

German Author

Richard Quest

It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.

English Journalist

Bryan Cranston

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

American Actor

Jerry Saltz

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

American Critic

The term 'hothouse' literally refers to structures where plants are grown in controlled, warm conditions.

Actual Greenhouses

'Hothouse' suggests an environment created by humans to grow plants, not natural settings.

Cultivation Context

Using 'hothouse' can imply that the plants or crops require a lot of care.

Care and Attention

'Hothouse' metaphorically means a place that encourages swift growth or advancement.

Rapid Development

The word can connote competitive pressure in addition to fast-paced growth.

Competitive Edge

A 'hothouse' often refers to environments with intense, perhaps stressful, conditions for progress.

Intense Atmosphere

As an adjective, 'hothouse' characterizes focused, often rigorous, education or training.

Specialized Training

It implies a condensed timeframe for learning a large amount of material.

Accelerated Learning

'Hothouse' suggests a high-pressure environment to achieve quick results.

High Pressure

 a hothouse time during which the continents drifted into their present configuration. Changes in climate or fossils found in the rock record help distinguish these epochs and help geologists tell deep time. So what will be the record of modern people's impact on the planet?

How long will human...

 because of the risk of pushing the earth system beyond tipping points. In fact, we are facing even a risk of a hothouse earth, where we will undermine and create geopolitical instabilities that could actually make life even more tough for billions of people on earth.