literature

"Love rules without rules."

"She’s popular for writing such books as The House in the Forest, Dark Blue is for Dreams, and Something to Hide."

"Another writer still alive and kicking past 90 years old is Rosina Umelo, a writer best known for her short stories, children’s books, and young adult fiction."

"Suddenly in 1951 I started…creative writing seriously."

""My grandfather is dead," Abel said. "You must bury him."... "My grandfather is dead," Abel repeated. His voice was low and even. There was no emotion, nothing."

"I am a Macedonian. I write in the central Macedonian dialect, which from now on I shall always consider the Macedonian literary language."

"Burckhardt's Cultur der Renaissance in Italien is the most penetrating and subtle treatise on the history of civilisation that exists in literature; but its merit lies in the originality with which th…"

"In my pre-teen years, I read books such as Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford, Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell and books by Rosa Guy. I also read a lot of Enid Blyton and Betsy Byars."

""I loved theater and writing short stories as a child. I was always a creative and energetic child.""

"All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.Which was a writer.By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but…"

"But every fool describes, in these bright days,His wondrous journey to some foreign court,And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,—Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport."