Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.