Born Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently…

— Anonymous

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

— Pat Conroy

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

— Rupi Kaur

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

— Oscar Wilde