Literature Quotes - Page 13

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

We create words, words create wonders.

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only 'station' and beyond it there exists nothing except the unanswered signal of a telephone ringing in a dark room of a distant city.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.