Anxiety Quote by Harold Bloom

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

— Ralph Keyes

Literature has become too psychological.

— Karan Mahajan

“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.”

— David McDonald

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to…

— Mike Young

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation

— Charles Frankel

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

— Charles Frankel

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan