4,370 Quotes About Literature

Salah satu bentuk kemalasan seorang perempuan adalah untuk mencari jati diri yang selanjutnya paska berumahtangga. Rasa kenyamanan memang bisa menghancurkan.

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and harm.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

La véritable fonction de la littérature est de nous maintenir en vie dans un monde brutal. [Interview de Charles Dantzig par Josyane Savigneau à l'occasion de la publication de Pourquoi lire ?, 15 oct. 2010, journal Le Monde]

la literatura es la defensa frente a las ofensas de la vida