4,370 Quotes About Literature

All people are enslaved by something.

What puzzled Abel about life was how much one forgot but then lived with anyway - like phantom limbs, he supposed.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

An appreciation for diverse forms of artistic expression is not only the beginning of enlightenment, but is also the bedrock of inclusive civilization.

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The perfect battlefield is fought by blind men all their lives during the normal course of everyday affairs.—Kari, Teenage Valkyrie, Valhallan Midnight Rantdezvous

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.

It has only been four hundred years since Shakespeare, and this is the state of things? Insanity, complete insanity.