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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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Country Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes
  • This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Morris Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes
  • In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes