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“I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.”

Source: Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit

“The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.”

Giving Heart Ideas Night Suffering Literature Work Style Sick Give Me Nerves Incapable Torment Fever Conveying

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.”

Ifs Knows Giving I Can Science Literature Middle Terrible Accounts Give Me Bricks

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.”

Thinking Giving Writing Film Literature Fiction Reflection Roots Give Me Science Fiction Deeper Pool

Author:Jon Spaihts

“Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.”

Knows Way Giving Doe Different Inspiration Form Literature Energy Influence Give Me Cinema Related

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”

Giving Literature Give Me Chaos Mechanism Coping Intellectualism Ennui Coping Mechanisms Invisible Monsters

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.”

Life Giving Life Is Literature Bed Give Me Feathers

Author:Edith Wharton

“In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.”

Giving Kind I Can Real Suffering Literature Imagination Cases Adventure Give Me Revenge Real Life

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa