| Author |
Quotes |
| Chinua Achebe | People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. |
| Cicero | A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
| Cyril Connolly | Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. |
| Cyril Connolly | Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. |
| Dalai Lama | In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. |
| David Lodge | Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. |
| Denis Diderot | Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. |
| Don Marquis | A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. |
| Donatus | Perish those who said our good things before we did. |
| Eduardo Galeano | The walls are the publishers of the poor. |
| Edwin Bourdet | When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature. |
| Ernest Hemingway | All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." |
| Ernest Hemingway | It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. |
| Ernst Fischer | To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. |
| Ezra Pound | Literature is news that stays news. |
| Ezra Pound | Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. |
| Fawn M Brodie | Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. |
| Flannery Oconnor | Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. |
| Flannery Oconnor | Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. |
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