Books Quote by T. S. Eliot

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is…

— Seamus Heaney

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

— Agnes Repplier

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

— Walter Benjamin

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;…

— Samuel Johnson

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

— Joseph Joubert

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.

— Neha Dhupia

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar

“it’s difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so”

— Leif Enger