Literature Quotes

Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will ...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences...

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stor...

It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn sn...

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don...

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I ...

Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and piece...

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the wo...

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of ...

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature eith...

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, hear...

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, ...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li...

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

People perish. Books are immortal.

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task...

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other ...

These (Shakespeare, Milton, and Victor Hugo) not only knit and knot the logical texture of the style...

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of im...

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Char...

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of ...

Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at le...

Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fam...

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart...

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind o...

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too ea...

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry move...

I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted...

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisa...

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap w...

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts...

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image ...

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present ...

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the imme...

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Spend the glittering moonlight therePursuing down the soundless deepLimbs that gleam and shadowy hai...

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. ...

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthles...

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human ...

Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do y...

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead w...

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, ...

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools...

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, book...

A good book is an event in my life.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been...

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar...

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically corre...

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer th...

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspect...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is ...

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was fre...