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Quotes About Writing and Literature

• "Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself."—Henry Miller

• "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."—Ezra Pound

• "I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." —John Steinbeck

• "It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."—Alfred North Whitehead

• "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."—Henry James

• "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."—C.S. Lewis

• "The crown of literature is poetry."—William Somerset Maugham

• "The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." —Robert Louis Stevenson

• "What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."—E.M. Forster

• "While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living."—Cyril Connolly

•          “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”   F. Scott Fitzgerald

• ·         “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” ― Annie Dillard, The Living