Books Quote by Amado Nervo

“Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He’d do this for free, not that he…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a…

— Henry Fielding

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware…

— Robert Creeley

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were…

— Edmond Jabes

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma