“Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it”
Mark Twain
“I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant”
“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
Bertolt Brecht
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature.”
Roddy Doyle
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
Oscar Wilde
