Isaac Asimov
View AuthorI write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die.
W. H. Auden
View AuthorA poet is, above all, a person passionately in love with language.
Paul Auster
View AuthorWriters are wounded beings. That's why we create another reality.
Paul Auster
View AuthorWe desperately need to be told stories. As much as we need to eat, because they help us organize reality and illuminate the chaos of our lives.
Pilar Avivar
View AuthorArt is not to represent the beautiful, but to beautifully represent things.
Francisco Ayala
View AuthorThe homeland of the writer is their language.
Gaston Bachelard
View AuthorThe poet's first task is to unmoor within us a substance that wants to dream.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorI have preferred to study books rather than men.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorBeauty is like summer fruit: easy to corrupt and short-lived.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorOne should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorArt is born in the brain, not in the heart.