4,370 Quotes About Literature

You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None of this, though, helps much to understand what theory is.

Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage, you’ve had it.

I don't have a favorite book. I have hundreds.

সাহিত্য বাদ দিয়ে বৈজ্ঞানিক হলে, তিনি ইচ্ছায় বা অনিচ্ছায় হিংস্র মানুষের হাতে মারণাস্ত্রই তুলে দেবেন- তাঁর আবিষ্কারকে মানুষ মানুষকে ধ্বংশ করার কাজে ব্যবহার করবে

Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time . . .

We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention.

What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?