Literature Quotes
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
