Literature Quotes - Page 99

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.