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Hold your pen and spare your voice.
— Dorothy Parker
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
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
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
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
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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 drownedFar 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
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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
