Quote by T.S. Eliot
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. - T.S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

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We write to remember our nows later. – Terri Guillemets

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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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Every writer I know has trouble writing. – Joseph Heller

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There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Meher Baba

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