Living-with-shakespeare Quote by Bill Willingham

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but…

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath.…

— Pat Conroy

“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a…

— K.M. Randall

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard