4,370 Quotes About Literature

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.