4,370 Quotes About Literature

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Literature is an attempt to influence one's contemporaries through the recording of experience.

É uma ilusão a sabedoria dos velhos. A sabedoria não cresce com a idade. O que cresce é o espírito de cautela. —Talvez a sabedoria seja isso.

Montag sentiu que o livro eu escondera batia como um outro coração contra o seu peito.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie.

The literary universe of insight that I've created is so vast that many would end up plagiarizing my statements and some of them would be popular public figures, but I can’t despise them for that, because at the core of my ideas there is one principle - I and all humans are one.

When you come out of storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

I certainly do not fear for the life of literature. There will always be people born wired for books. Every age has its contemplatives.