“There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, not a truth that anybody would believe.”
Mark Twain
“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”
“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
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality”
C.S. Lewis
