Quotes about writing

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

— Dejan Stojanovic

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

— Dejan Stojanovic

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf