Books Quote by Richard Bausch

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to…

— Stephen Greenblatt

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the…

— Charles Colson

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…

— James Hynes

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would…

— Oscar Hijuelos

“Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead…

— Adam Kirsch

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with…

— Ezra Pound