"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."

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"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."

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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."

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"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

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"I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate."

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"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Literature, Fiction, Understanding, Experience, People

"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Books, Culture, Inspirational, Imagination

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Desire, Nostalgia, Memory

"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Sensuality, Beauty, Fiction

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Reading, Books, Judgment, Quality

"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Literature, Legacy, Writing, Art

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Novel, Writing, Talent, Humanity

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

George Orwell, British Author

Literature, Writing, Prose, Creativity, Art

"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."

Stephen King, American Author

Literature, Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Literature, Reading, Memory, Brother, Poetry

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"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

"I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate."

"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."

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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"