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"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"
Quote by -John Burroughs
"I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person."
Quote by -Dawn French
“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
Quote by -Macaulay Culkin
To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Quote by -Willa Cather
All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was written.
Quote by -William Gibson
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
Quote by -William Seward
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.
Quote by -William Seward
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
Quote by -Umberto Eco
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses
Quote by -Umberto Eco
I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
L'�me humaine ne s'explique pas par la psychologie. Elle ne peut �tre expliqu�e, elle est � vivre.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
Quote by -Terry Goodkind
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Quote by -Thomas Mann
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
Quote by -Thomas Pynchon
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.
Quote by -Tom Lehrer
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Quote by -Tom Stoppard
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
Quote by -Sir Michael Caine