Writers On Writers
by dollydelightly
“We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Mayakovsky impregnated poetry in such a way that almost all the poetry has continued being Mayakovskian.”
Pablo Neruda
“I wouldn’t like to do what Elizabeth Bowen once told me she did—write something every day, whether I was working on a book or not.”
Angus Wilson
“Vladimir Nabokov, and I languidly English the name, takes up a good five feet of my library. “
Martin Amis
“Flann O’Brien is unquestionably a major author.”
Anthony Burgess
“Between thirteen and sixteen are the ideal if not the only ages for succumbing to Thomas Wolfe—he seemed to me a great genius then, and still does, though I can’t read a line of it now.”
Truman Capote
“As far as I’m consciously aware, I forget everything I read at once, including my own stuff. But I have a tremendous admiration for Céline.”
Henry Green
“It may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Kingsley Amis and I used to exchange unpublished poems, largely because we never thought they could be published, I suppose.”
Philip Larkin
“Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Sources: Wikipedia, Brainy Quote, The Paris Review
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