4,370 Quotes About Literature

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Literature is news that stays news.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found his way to a solution of these questions in a conscious manner; now he could only feel. In place of dialectics life had arrived, and in his consciousness something of a wholly different nature must now work towards fruition.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.