4,370 Quotes About Literature

Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

The understanding of man comes from literature. The interpretation comes from art.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

Los buenos escritores necesitan a los malos escritores aunque sólo sea como lectores o como escuderos.

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.