Literature Quotes

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty" "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "Economic conditions, cultural avarice, and the exploitation of memory colonized the text before it was even set down" "The beauties and joys of medieval literature alone provide more than enough delight for those who can read" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change" "Invisible cities are a dream that rises to the sky and falls back to the earth to become solid again" "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts" "I want to write the saddest lines tonight." "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "It was a pleasure to burn" "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "Writing is itself but the representation of speech"