4,370 Quotes About Literature

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

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

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.