Literature Quotes - Page 80

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

Writers speak stench.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Prosperity is full of friends.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.