4,370 Quotes About Literature

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.