4,370 Quotes About Literature

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscious needs. It would be important if it only touched the conscious mind, as expository writing does. But fiction is important, too, because it teaches the unconscious.

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.

Señor, ¿por qué no han de tener las mujeres derecho para encontrar guapos a los hombres que lo sean, y por qué ha de mirarse mal que lo manifiesten? (...) Si no lo decimos, lo pensamos, y no hay nada mas peligroso que lo reprimido y oculto, lo que se queda dentro.

¿Hay entre nosotros, dos minutos después, algún vínculo que no existía dos minutos antes?

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

Literature is light.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

Observe this mysterious book and be changed" -- Washington Post Book World