Books 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

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

— Anonymous

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

— George Saintsbury

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

— August Wilson

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

— August Wilson

“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

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

— Linda Sue Park

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson