4,370 Quotes About Literature

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.

إن الناس الجهلة لا يعرفون مدى هذه القوة التي يمكن أن يمدهم بها تدخين الحشيش...إنها قوة تفرض على العقل البشري التركيز على موضوع واحد فقط طالما هو تحت سيطرة الحشيش، فاذا بدأ الحشاش يدخن و هو يفكر مثلا في موضوع مشاكله مع زوجته و أولاده، يظل كل عقله و احساسه و كل خواطره معلقة بهذا الموضوع طوال الفترة التي يقضيها مسطولا كأنه أصبح أستاذا متفرغا لدراسة تخصص فيها

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

عجبت لحال وطني . إنه رغم انحرافه يتضخم ويتعظم ويتعملق ، يملك القوة والنفوذ ، يصنع الأشياء من الإبرة حتى الصاروخ ، يبشر باتجاه إنساني عظيم ، ولكن مابال الإنسان فيه قد تضاءل وتهافت حتى صار في تفاهة بعوضة ، ما باله يمضي بلا حقوق ولا كرامة ولا حماية ، ما باله ينهكه الجبن والنفاق والخواء- الكرنك