Quote by Ian McEwan

“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to…

— Angela Carter

“Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient…

— Donna Goddard

“quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never…

— Helen Rappaport

“The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is very unfashionable to talk with them.”

— Brandon Vogt

“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of…

— T. Greenwood

“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.”

— Thornton Wilder

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh