Becoming Quote by Joanna Scott

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus…

— David Shields

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,…

— Tillie Olsen

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith