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Literature Quotes

"To make words sing, a poet must have music in his soul."

"In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward"

"To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic"

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

"Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead"

"To see the summer sky is poetry though never in a book it lie"

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"Read in order to live"

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope"

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart"

"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence."

"What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?"

"Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar"

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

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