Literature Writing Quotes

Literature Writing Quote of the day

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

Words are living things.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.