Literature Quotes

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

Literature is life.

A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

– I’m going to be a writer, he reminded Milo.– And you won’t need literature?– I’ll write my own.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.

People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They act against him and disregard him.

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Things are just things, they can't bring back the dead.It just makes me feel better. - Hiiragi

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

This heart is a hurricane, turbulent with ache screaming winds of grief waiting to make the skyfall, to pluck the cloudsfrom their beds with itswhipping winds

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning

I grow weary of the loveThat lasts for a nightWhen it should be thereThe next sunrise

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.

Now we’re guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on. No trees, no cool breeze, no best friends. Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...

You are...the embodimentof immediate good karma.The equalizer between bottomfeeders and the sanctimoniouscogs in the system.

[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.