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All you can be sure about in a political-minded Writeris that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a Writeris driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one c

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

There are events which are so great that if a Writerhas participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

The good parts of a book may be only something a Writeris lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

Literature is news that stays news.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

» F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American writer

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.

» Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into hi

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and s

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

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