4,370 Quotes About Literature

linear brains can't curve a thought.

I want to point out another contradiction: the nationalists pretend to venerate the capacities of the Argentine mind but want to limit the poetic exercises of that mind to a few impoverished local themes, as if we Argentines could only speak of orillas aná estancias and not of the universe.

Writers are only ever as good as their readers.

Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel at. She had no Irish blarney, she never exaggerated. I could listen to Milly for hours.

Las buenas historias siguen vivas después de escucharlas, y sus protagonistas te acompañan el resto de tu vida.

Absolute equals nothingness.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

A gifted storyteller should be able to tell their stories in different genres, mediums, and platforms. The art of storytelling is the same since civilization began. Only the way of telling it has changed because of technology. - Kailin Gow on Storytelling

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.