#liter

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#life

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets. ↗

— Roman Payne

#carpe-diem #great #learning #life #life-lessons

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza! ↗

— Roman Payne

#ibiza #libraries #lifestyle #literary #literary-life

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#anti-twilight #dark-humor #drugs #gluttony #heroin

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete ↗

— John Steinbeck

#wife #wifely-duty #life

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. ↗

— F.R. Leavis

#reading #life

Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#truth-of-life #life

Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person. ↗

— Ryū Murakami

#japanese #japanese-literature #life

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada ↗

— Richard Ford

#crime #fiction #literary #imagination