Books Quote by George Gissing

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting, crying and…

— Boniface Sagini

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men…

— Edgar Fawcett

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers.…

— Anaïs Nin

“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall. Stallions should…

— Will Advise

“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good…

— William Faulkner

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

— Derek Walcott

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in our poetry.

— Needa Muy