Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

— James Boswell

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

“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

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages,…

— Paul Auster

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for…

— C.S. Lewis