4,370 Quotes About Literature

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue.

em querer de duras penas tatuei-me uma penalevíssima ferida lateja

He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]

All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.

What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?Whose invention?

What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?

To write? Because all this is ging to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left we nothing, we would be naked on earth.