4,370 Quotes About Literature

A true poet must had to sink, to an ocean of secrets to reveal,and he must be Lovable:but what the World did was smashing his views in a pit of GOLD.

Literature is language of the gods.

It’s all about the word-culture, babeand street literatureand the good kind, too.None of that wishy-washy shit either.

That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Papier ist Papieraber es ist auch ein Wegzu den Sternenzu Sinnbild und Sinnblinden Geheimnissenundzu den Menschen.("Paper is paperbut it is alsoa roadto the starsto metaphor and meaningblind secretsand to humanity.")

كلنا نعيش بأسماء غيرأسمائنا ونفوس غير نفوسنا ، كلنا نتظاهر وندعي ونصدق ادعاءاتنا، كلنا نعيش أشخاصاً لا نعرفهم

Can any author ever imagine just how far literature reaches into unfathomed horizons of culture, what it transforms and whom it liberates?

الكتابة هي انتحار الجبناء.

Вообще, было бы неплохо, если бы проза так же перла, как трава или стишки. Не было бы всех этих споров, хорошо написал или плохо. Поперло – значит, хорошо. Не поперло – плохо.