“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality”
C.S. Lewis
“In a good literary memoir, you're basically rendering the essence of the experience. Whether someone is called Jane or Susan, who cares?”
Joyce Johnson
“In the art gallery, listeners are given a fuller, more multidisciplinary experience. It's a way of getting literary people into the gallery, and the attendees of the readings get to experience the artwork as well.”
Anna Monardo
“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
“I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant”
Mark Twain
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Anais Nin
