Books Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem