Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.
With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.
[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word novel in about 999 minutes.
Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
