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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems,

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature,

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity,

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart, Democracy, Dictatorship, Parliament

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition, Departure, World

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature,

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation, Country, Problems

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People, Poets, Want

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

Language, Writers

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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Books, Culture, Inspirational, Imagination

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Desire, Nostalgia, Memory

"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Literature, Sensuality, Beauty, Fiction

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Reading, Books, Judgment, Quality

"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Literature, Legacy, Writing, Art

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Novel, Writing, Talent, Humanity

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

George Orwell, British Author

Literature, Writing, Prose, Creativity, Art

"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."

Stephen King, American Author

Literature, Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Literature, Reading, Memory, Brother, Poetry

"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Books, Escape, Curiosity, Solitude