242 Quotes About Literary

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?

The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.

There is a spontaneous round of applause in the hall... Victor looks unhappy. He wouldn't call it unhappy, he would call it misunderstood. He waits... Then he does one of the things he does so well -- heads out of the sciences and into the arts: To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world.

This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in some sense her work must begin there, at the rootwad. And wherever she travels she must take that place with her, must feel in the dark of memory for its shape.

Now he began to intuitively sense a world organized according to lawfully segregated zones of those allowed to exist fully and those corralled into a state of half-being, tamped beneath normal levels of cognition into a grim unceasing purgatory. Personhood and Objecthood entwined, and distinguishing the difference turned into an exercise of pure ambivalence.

The splendid beauty of this living world,and its subtle moonlight glint wakes a mild youth’s mind,whose colors are of pensive green,and tranquil white to ink his visions keen.

And he has a Poet,but you are unlucky to hear that Pensive song.

Write drunk; edit sober.