Bones Quote by T. S. Eliot

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind…

— T.S. Eliot

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

“the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definite, and concrete. The greatest writers—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—are…

— Robert W. Bly

“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Writing is the way I make sense of a chaotic world. I see the tumultuous backdrop of humanity around me, and I feel it…

— Leigh Hershkovich

“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life…

— Gustav Flaubert

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

— Umberto Eco

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their…

— Barbara Tuchman

“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

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche