Literature Quotes
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.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.