Literature Quotes

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads" "It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for him" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" "What light through yonder window breaks?" "I am one who loved not wisely but too well." "Words without thoughts never to heaven go." "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself." "I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going" "This is a work of fiction, but believe me, none of this is invented." "Books were my pass to personal freedom." "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further." "It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are." "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living" "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" "I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "The hardest thing about writing is writing"