Literature is the art of discovering something…

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary…

— Horace

One word of wisdom is as good as a hundred ordinary words.

— Vikrant Parsai

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the…

— Martine Leavitt

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…

— Helen Vendler

“A good writer is likely to know and use, or find out and use, the words for common architectural features, like "lintel," "newel post,"…

— John Gardner

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is…

— Haruki Murakami

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

— Robert P. T. Coffin

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet…

— George Henry Lewes

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through…

— Elie Wiesel

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces. Their narrow subjects may confound or disappoint some. Courtship among the eighteenth-century…

— Ian McEwan

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly