Literary Quotes

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

The story we write today will support the next generation.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.Bhanggi

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

Fate bring two people togetherand it is love's job t o keep them there.

String of fate brings two people together and it is love's job to keep them there.

The old law of an eye for an eye didn’t make them blind to the fact that another man’s terrorist wasn’t their freedom fighter.

I am not an atheist preacher. I am not an absolutist or chauvinist whose ways are immune to evolution. My core philosophy is that I might be wrong.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.

Stallions, " Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.