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“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.”
Georges Simenon Quotes Source: in an interview, in the "Paris Review"
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“We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.”
Sydney Smith Quotes Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 23)
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“The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)”
Tobias George Smollett Quotes Source: Letter to Wilkes
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“People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”
Cyril Connolly Quotes |
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“Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.”
Ford Madox Ford Quotes |
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“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
Chinua Achebe Quotes |
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“The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Literature is the question minus the answer.”
Roland Barthes Quotes |
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“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”
Herman Melville Quotes |
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino Quotes |
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“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
John Morley Quotes |
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“To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.”
Ernst Fischer Quotes |
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“Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature”
John Moschitta Quotes |
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“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes |
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“Literature is news that stays news.”
Ezra Pound Quotes |
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“All literature is gossip.”
Truman Capote Quotes |
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“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
Jules Renard Quotes |
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“Literature is the immortality of speech.”
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel Quotes |
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“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”
Alvin Toffler Quotes |
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“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.”
Anon. Quotes |
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“All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.”
Richard Hughes Quotes |
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“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
Jules Renard Quotes |
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“When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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