Believe Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

“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

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

— Robert Holden

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on…

— Harlan Ellison

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

— Terence McKenna

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous