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A literature must innovate if it wants to live and be strong.

Author: Alexandru Macedonski (1854 - 1920) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

It is a sad feature of modern life that only women for the most part have time to write novels, and they seldom have much to write about.

Author: Auberon Alexander Waugh (1939 - 2001) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 1.00 | Fav

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing can compare to Eastenders.It's some of the best literature being written in England at the moment.

Author: David Bowie (1947) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Each character took something from me.

Author: Alexandru Ecovoiu (1943) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Literature - salutary fiction, boycotted restlessly by the tortures of meat. Dissertation on body, 2010 RightWords Translation

Author: Iulian Boldea (1963) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice;the journalism is art of what is read once.

Author: Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 - 1974) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The link between the Polish and Romanian literature transpires in aproaching common motives: Sobieski, Cosmin Forests, Despot Voda, maiden Ruxandra, motiveswhich are highlighting the most important...

Author: Constantin Geambasu (1948) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

For Polish, the work of Cioran and Eliade is bringsing with itself an impressive world of thought and reflection.

Author: Constantin Geambasu (1948) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Author: Barbu Cioculescu (1927) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Author: Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is no difference between making bread and printing books.

Author: Costache Olareanu (1929 - 2000) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The avantgarde are people who don’t exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Author: Romain Gary (1914 - 1980) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

Author: John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 7.00 | Fav

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Author: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873 - 1950) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 10 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Author: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873 - 1950) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 14 | Rank: 1.00 | Fav

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Author: André Maurois (1885 - 1967) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 12 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The writer cannot exist outside of the fortress and mother tongue.

Author: Vasile Tarateanu (1945) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 47 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 33 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav
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