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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

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

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

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. — Allan Gurganus

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. — Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise. — Ram Vignesh

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian McEwan

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author. — Paul Auster

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

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. — Jamie L. Harding

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley

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

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason. — Brian Herbert

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

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words. — Jamie L. Harding

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. — Ren Garcia

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

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. — Johnny Rich

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. — Alan Lightman

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard

No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers.. — Himmilicious

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature. — Danilo Kis

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — 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

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

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

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent. — Reinaldo Arenas

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

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

In literature, you know only what you imagine — Carlos Fuentes

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed. — Don Roff

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands? — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

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

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?
Then, leave me to my foolishness. — Piers Anthony

Words are living things. — Eric Onyango Otieno

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

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. — Haruki Murakami

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

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. — Jonathan Kozol

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it. — David Foster Wallace

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

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners
of them — David Morrell

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

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

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

Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. — William H Gass

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. — Marty Rubin

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. — Junot Diaz

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. — Harold Bloom

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

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

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

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. — Julian Barnes

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

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. — Kate Zambreno

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

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

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy ... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy

Moral writing is boring. — Johan Van Wyk

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option! — Lillian R. Melendez

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. — Charles Baudelaire

To write for children at all is an act of faith. — Madeleine L'Engle

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams

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

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances. — Stephen King

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. — David Shields

I don't believe in literature-I believe in conversation. — Marty Rubin

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right. — Amy Joy

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. — George Orwell

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag