Literature Quotes
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.
A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
