Literature Quotes

"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree." "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "Words are all we have" "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence" "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience." "Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race" "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" "I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be" "As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do." "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest." "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream" "I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books" "I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. " "A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom." "Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life" "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "All that glisters is not gold" "O brave new world that has such people in it" "It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."