Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.