Famous quotes containing the words held, posts and/or including:
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the aira book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed;
Never so few, and never yet more need.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)