Quotes on Literature

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.