LITERATURE QUOTES

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

If fiction does not show us better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Trouble of all kind is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.