Literature Quotes

"Don't talk about it; write." "You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps" "All great literature either founds a genre or dissolves one" "A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men), that wise men only should be able to commend him." "The calm, cool face of the river asked me for a kiss " "People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories" "Visit many good books, but live in the Bible." "Writing is the process of creating life itself" "Understand that poetry is not meant to be understood" "We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men" "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea" "Be careful about reading health books. You may die" "Be awesome! Be a book nut!" "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" "Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning" "These fragments I have shored against my ruins" "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how " "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore" "I am the darker brother, they send me to eat"