Five Quote by George William Russell

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

— Ross Wetzsteon

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or…

— Joan Blades

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each…

— Arundhati Roy

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to…

— Walter Mosley

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road,…

— Charles Baudelaire

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is…

— Nicholas Sparks

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the…

— Cherrie Moraga

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

— Joshua Mohr

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The…

— William Saroyan