Books Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people. Only we…

— Rabbi Kook

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

— Ryan Tedder

Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in…

— Clarence Major

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

— Frederick Busch

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro

To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look…

— Lydia Davis

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put…

— Joanna Scott

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…

— James Hynes

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would…

— Oscar Hijuelos

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard