End Quote by Michael Dirda

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have…

— Lee Gutkind

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead…

— Anonymous

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

— Kenneth Koch

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista