Literary Society Quotes

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.