"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

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"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

John Green, American Author

Literature, Books, Creativity, Life, Art

"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Literature, Fame, Legacy, Universe, Light

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Literature, Shakespeare, Writing

"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

"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Literature, Writing, Reading, Decline

"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Literature, Gender, Humor, Satire

"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Literature, Creativity, Expression, Escape

"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."

Aberjhani, American Historian

Literature, Poetry, Expression, History, Creativity

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

Nora Roberts, American Author

Literature, Fiction, Empathy, Emotion, Connection

"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Literature, Reading, Emptiness, Observation, Silence

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"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."

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"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

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"God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women."

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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

"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.'"

"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"

"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."

"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."

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"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."

"What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households."

"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading."

"The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back."

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

"God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women."

"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."