4,370 Quotes About Literature

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

I had a certain talent for friendship, but I never had any friends, either because they never appeared, or because the friendship I had imagined was a mistake made by my dreams. I always lived an isolated life, which became more and more isolated the more I came to know myself.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.

I plan to publish books in other genres and continue to not put myself in a box when it comes to my art.

Sitting at the tables of cafés in the cities I visited, I found myself thinking that everything tasted to me of dreams, of emptiness. I sometimes found myself wondering if I was still sitting at the table of out old house, motionless and dazzled by dreams! I cannot promise you that this is not what is happening, that I am not still there now, that all this, including this conversation with you, is false and imaginary. Who are you, by the way? The absurd thing is that you don’t know either...