Important Quote by Van Wyck Brooks Download Open image “The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.” — Van Wyck Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Inspirational Territory Writing
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you… — Geoffrey Cottrell Copy Share Image
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many,… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
