top of page
.png){kind=small}
""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."
Standard
Customized
More
"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Change
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Soul
"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
Beauty
"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
Being
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
Past
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
Work
"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
Art
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
Art
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
Beauty
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
Travel
bottom of page