Motion picture Quote by Jess Walter

“If I could, I'd take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France and the…

— Tsh Oxenreider

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions.…

— Roberto Benigni

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.”

— Victor Hugo

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the…

— Walt Whitman

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom,…

— Ezra Pound

“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words set prettily…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There are only…

— Henry Mosquera

“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of…

— N. D. Wilson

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman