T.S. Eliot's Quote - The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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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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You are the music while the music lasts. – T.S. Eliot

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality. – T.S. Eliot

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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