Books Quote by Mick Farren Download Open image “We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.” — Mick Farren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Decay Dust Immortal Literature Thinking Turns
“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“You see, literary culture is perpetually dead and dying; and when some respected writer discovers and loudly proclaims the finality of this fact, it… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“A story wearing another dress every time you hear it - what could be better? A story that grows and puts out flowers like… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds,… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
