What is literature? It is text that requires, firstly, immense patience and understanding to write and secondly, to read! To write a piece of work that is considered as literature, you must either be super dedicated to the cause or a genius! Acquainting yourself with words is probably one of the first steps to getting a great piece of work written. The main task lies in researching and verifying details. Literature can be both creative or technical but in both the cases, imagination plays quite an important role. The following section might just incite your imagination!
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Literature Quotes
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
 Sylvia Plath |
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Jean Paul Sartre |
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound |
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy |
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury |
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton |
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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Robert Smith |
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett |
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion |
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Joan Didion |
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Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion |
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler |
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler |
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler |
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett |
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard |
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton |
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi Minh |
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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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.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck |
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Nick Cave |
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono |
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield |
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Seamus Heaney |
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
Seamus Heaney |
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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Seamus Heaney |
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving |
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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
John Irving |
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
John Irving |
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford |
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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard Wright |
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier |
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams |
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin |
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch |
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman |
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne |
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card |
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
Calvin Marshall Trillin |
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Laurie Anderson |
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We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
Layne Staley |
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London |
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells |
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne |
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Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate |
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead |
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys |
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton |
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred De Musset |
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn |
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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft |
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft |
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Anthony Trollope |
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott |
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen |
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
F. L. Lucas |
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas |
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas |
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood |
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper |
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold |
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