Censorship Quote by Ray Bradbury

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

— Ray Bradbury

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori

“Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and…

— Ahmad Al-Tifashi

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”

— Janice Hardy

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent as though…

— Jewel Kilcher

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“The lower the soul of a person, the higher the nose up. He stretches his nose to where the soul has not grown.”

— Omar Khayyám

“How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that…

— Jorge Luis Borges