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Hold your pen and spare your voice. — Dorothy Parker

The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom. — Subhan Zein

Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful. — Amy Joy

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ... — Chris Campanioni

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more. — Anthea Syrokou

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature. — Sam Weller

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. — Ruth Ozeki

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. — Washington Irving

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff

Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.

--"My Confession — Zoe S. Roy

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort. — Jamie L. Harding

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. — David Amram

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow. — Jules Renard

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing. — E. M. Forster

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born. — Abhijit Naskar

It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me. — Tom McCarthy

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. — Mark Twain

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nature is amazing wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature. — Marguerite Duras

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. — Lara Biyuts

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours. — Zaeema J. Hussain

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't. — David Shields

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind! — Joseph Conrad

The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer — Matsuo Basho

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole. — Sean O'Faolain

Pay attention, and use your imagination. — R.M. Engelhardt

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. — Kenneth Oppel

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. — Richard Brookhiser

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. — Samuel Johnson

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. — Lenora Champagne

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny The Younger

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn. — Graham Moore

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. — Joshua Rogers

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. — Gaby Hoffmann

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between. — Marc Royston