4,370 Quotes About Literature

I have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.

وهل للمنازعات الخطابية بين الأحزاب السياسية البرجوازية أية علاقة بمصالح المساكين والمسحوقين؟

I think of literature,’ she wrote, ‘as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

عاش حياته يبحث ويحاول الفهم، ولم يجد الرضا في حب ولا مال ولا نفوذ ولا حتى بلد وسكن، لم يجد الرضا إلا بين أركان أحلامه ومحاربة الزمن والانتصار عليه، ففي الإبداع يكمن الخلود، وفي التشييد تكمن القوة، وفي الرسم تكمن المعجزة، وفي الانتهاء من البناء الرضا والاستقرار.

This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there. They could bring their somethings to a text, as co-creators, embedding a needed reality in the story that, if it was flexible enough, would allow new threads to take their place beside the author’s.

ابنتي... الكلمات هي ما تخيف الأمراء، كل الأشياء الأخرى لها حل ومخرج، أمَّا الكلمات فلها وقع آخر، احترسي من كلماتك في المستقبل.

A drop of darkness above me hung,within me ruined Rome,within me demolished Rome, where those lands my dream would well travel,before that I want to die without blame,so let me see ten thousand moons to Dream.

-Hija mía, eres joven, tienes toda la vida por delante. Lee. Olvida lo que te hayan dicho sobre los libros, y lee.

If success has thousand painful tales to tell, why would I yield to hear you say failure.