Literature Quotes

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further." "It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are." "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living" "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" "I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "The hardest thing about writing is writing" "There's no such thing as a perfect book" "A town isn't a town without a bookstore" "You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story" "I've only seen my mother cry once, and that was at the end of a book." "Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."