4,370 Quotes About Literature

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

İnsana üzərində xoşbəxt yaşamaq üçün bir qədər torpaq lazımdır, həmişəlik rahat olmaq üçün isə daha az torpaq gərək olur.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Νιώθω πως έφυγε όλη μου η χαρά. Παραβάρυνε η ζωή, σήμερα η κάθε στιγμή που περνάει δεν μπορεί να μας χορτάσει μήτε με τη χαρά μήτε με τη θλίψη της.

A boy trying out a man's language.

That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.