4,370 Quotes About Literature

سبک و ساختار جوهرِ یک کتاب اند؛ ایده های بزرگ شرِ و وِرند

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

Literature and gossip are closely related. People who are curious and imaginative long to know 'what it's like for other people.' This longing can be satisfied in its basest, most banal form through gossip, just as it can attain a more refined and complex gratification in art. Both gossip and literature, each in its own way, are capable of offering a partial antidote to fanaticism, because they both relish the fascinating differences between people.

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.