Books Quote by Will Lavender Download Open image ““Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”” — Will Lavender ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Literature Writing
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like… — Antonio Muxf1oz Molina Copy Share Image
“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art form, that… — Will Lavender Copy Share Image
“What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the… — Will Lavender Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
