Quotes about Literature, page 4

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Quote by Danielle Steel about literature

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Quote by Edna Ferber about literature

Your reader is at least as bright as you are.

Quote by William Keepers Maxwell about literature

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about literature

There's one good kind of writer...a dead one.

Quote by James Thomas Farrell about literature

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Quote by James Thomas Farrell about literature

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Quote by Francoise Sagan about literature

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Quote by André Breton about literature

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

Quote by Claude Simon about literature

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

Quote by Claude Simon about literature

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Quote by Harold Pinter about literature

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Quote by Italo Calvino about literature

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about literature

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Quote by Zane Grey about literature

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Quote by Zane Grey about literature

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Quote by Hervey Allen about literature

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about literature

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about literature

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Quote by Juan Ramón Jiménez about literature