Literature Quotes
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
There are lots of things in life that are like riding a bike, but writing short stories isn't one of them. You can forget how.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
If you can sing of nothing better
than your own joy or broken heart,
the world can do without your singing:
keep out, where you can have no part!
There are only about five really good stories, and writers just tell them over and over, with different characters.
If there is any one thing I love about writing more than the rest, it's that sudden flash of insight when you see how everything connects.
Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.