Allusion Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry,…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“If you want to succeed as an author you need to work your ass off. Not only do you need to work, but you…

— Chris Fox

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing…

— Gustave Flaubert

“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.”

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.”

— Michelle D. Kwasney