Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.
The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.