4,370 Quotes About Literature

Người ta có lòng tốt với mình thì mình phải nói làm sao cho người ta vui lòng chứ.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.

I don't write to inspire you, I write to destroy you, because without the bravehearts to destroy themselves, there'll be no society.

It takes hubris to write; and humilty to accept that the world does not care. Love what you do and let that be its own reward.

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.

If aliens land on earth one day, they will find that the human language is a mystery in which words will do anything the hopeless ask of them.

Kids who don't like writing about books often don't enjoy reading them in the first place, and kids who hate reading inevitably end up being terrible writers.

Literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.