#liter

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ↗

— Leon Edel

#become #biographer #eyes #four #literary

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#animal #ends #everything #i #i am

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#book #center #character #imagine #literary

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#anticipation #dejan-stojanovic #dream #dreams #father

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #bridges #contemporary-poetry #dreams #meaning

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#illiteracy #oppression #women #women-s-rights #life

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity ↗

— Yeats

#literature-quotes #thoughts-on-life #life

Life is only a flicker of melted ice. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#flicker #ice #life #literature #literature-quotes