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  • The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Country Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Past Quotes
  • For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Dream Quotes , Writing Quotes