4,370 Quotes About Literature

Edebi eserler, insanı yeni ve mesut, başka iyi ve güzel bir dünyaya götürmeye yardım etmiyorlarsa neye yarar?

.أن يكون لديك هدف -ولو بسيط- أفضل دائمًا من أن تكون بلا هدفHaving a goal, even though it is simple, is always better than being aimless.

Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tinyliterature under the big words.

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.

It was as if his spirit were in prison. It would have been nice, indeed, to be that water, never staying, passing, passing; or wind, touching everything, never caught. To be able to do nothing without hurting someone - that was what was so ghastly. If only one were like a flower, that just sprang up and lived its life all to itself, and died. But whatever he did, or said now, would be like telling lies, or else being cruel. The only thing was to keep away from people.

Sadly for the books these days there are more writers than readers