Literature Quotes
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"Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
Quote by -Don DeLillo
"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"
Quote by -Dorothy Parker
"A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular."
Quote by -E. B. White
"In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
Quote by -E. B. White
"The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything"
Quote by -E. B. White
"It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
Quote by -E. B. White
"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds," 1954"
Quote by -E. B. White
"By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."
Quote by -E. B. White
"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Very fine law,” said Stuart. “When I am Chairman, anybody who is mean to anybody else is going to catch it."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I remember what it is like to be in love before any of love’s complexities or realities or disturbances has entered in, to dilute its splendor and challenge its perfection."
Quote by -E. B. White
"I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema, there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles."
Quote by -E. B. White
"She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writers. Charlotte was both."
Quote by -E. B. White
"As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying"
Quote by -E. B. White
"New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up"
Quote by -E. B. White
"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place."
Quote by -E. B. White
"When your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it’s always hard to sleep."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable."
Quote by -Gertrude Stein
"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti."
Quote by -James Thurber
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Quote by -Alice Walker
“And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
Quote by -Maya Angelou