4,370 Quotes About Literature

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Literature is not only the reflection of life but also of death!

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered.

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.