4,370 Quotes About Literature

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.

...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

يقال أحيانا أن الإنسان حيوان كاسر إلا أن فى هذا القول إهانة للحيوانات لا داعى لها فالحيوانات لا تبلغ مبلغ البشر فى القسوة أبداً وهى لا تتفنن فى قسوتها تفنن الإنسان