4,370 Quotes About Literature

something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace

لكنه لا يشك على الاطلاق بالوظيفة الثابتة للكاثوليكية كأداة كبح اجتماعي للأهواء والشهوات..لدى الوحش البشري

Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university career, among other sad reasons because he dreamed of being a writer.

If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of.On the other hand, if you should be assigned Rite of Passage, and you start to read it and it doesn't work for you, just put it aside and forget the whole thing. Tell the teacher I said it was okay. Okay?

The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them