literary artist Quotes

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.