5 quotes found
“Literature is news that stays news.”
“Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.”
“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations...”
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wan...”
“When you start searching for pure elements in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of persons: Inventors. Men who found a new process, or whose extant...”
