4,370 Quotes About Literature

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Atunci am înțeles că nimic nu durează în suflet, că cea mai verificată încredere poate fi anulată de un singur gest, că cele mai sincere posesiuni nu dovedesc niciodată nimic, căci și sinceritatea poate fi repetată, cu altul, cu alții, că, în sfârșit, totul se uită sau se poate uita.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.