#literature

From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#japanese #japanese-literature #studying #japan

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#noble

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a). ↗

— John Scalzi

#gay #glbt #literature #raising-kids #writing

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. ↗

— Sophocles

#greek-literature #mythology #classics

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#literature #classics

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #romance #classics

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. ↗

— Robert Bringhurst

#literature #writing #economics

Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #myself-quatation #poems

I recreate myself; that is my only power. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #poems #poetry

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#comfort #deceit #deceive #dejan-stojanovic #literature