In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.

What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your...

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.

Maybe at the very bottom of it… I really don’t like God. You know, it’s silly to say I don’t like God because I don’t believe in God, but in the same sense that I...

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse...

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful...

yo soy mi propio ángel y mi único demonio.

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

The idea only true or right “meaning” would be that shared by the largest number of the best readers after repeated and careful readings over several generations, different periods, nationalities, moods, degrees of alertness, private...

We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well...

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Terminus dahü: Hastanın ameliyat masasında ölme ihtimali. Status idem: Hastanın durumu değişmemiş aynı. Rezektabl: Ameliyatla çıkarılabilir.

Kanser insanları sever. Pençelerini bir taktı mı öldürünceye kadar bırakmaz.

But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I was Damn born out of the loins of my father in...

Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind’s tread,...

I write for the beauty of the printed word”from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought....

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...

Autora de los libros:Esmeralda Perdida/ Carta Pintada en la Noche/ Cuentos y Poesías para Niños: Amo a mis Animales/ Novela actual: 30 Años de Silencio

Literature is news that stays news.

Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on...

This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is...

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It is a profound thing. It strengthens people’s hearts and instructs them,…...

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic....

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Her neyse, hep, büyük bir çavdar tarlasında oyun oynayan çocuklar getiriyorum gözümün önüne. Binlerce çocuk, başka kimse yok ortalıkta yetişkin hiç kimse, yani benden başka. Ve çılgın bir uçurumun kenarında durmuşum. Ne yapıyorum, uçuruma yaklaşan...

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

The poet is a faker / Who’s so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.