4,370 Quotes About Literature

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

Hat im 20. Jahrhundert irgendein anderer Roman so nachhaltig gewirkt wie"Pippi Langstrumpf"?

Artaud decía que escribir era una marranada, que todos los escritores eran unos cerdos, sobre todo los de ahora. Lo suscribo. Sin embargo, pese a todo, continúo admirando a los jóvenes escritores. De la misma forma que admiro a los jóvenes boxeadores

Literature, which I have the honor to serve, is dear to me just because the noblest task it sets before itself is that of wiping out boundaries and distances.

Layla and Majnun - I sought not fire, yet my heart is all flame. Layla, this love is not of earth

Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature