Literature Quotes

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!

However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?

I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

There's a saying, " Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

Moral writing is boring.

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I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.