Ability Quote by Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…

— Wole Soyinka

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to…

— Robert Bringhurst

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to…

— E. B. White

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on…

— Harlan Ellison

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer