4,370 Quotes About Literature

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

من يخفف من أعباء الآخرين لا يمكن اعتباره من عديمي الفائدة في هذا العالم

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Num qualquer futuro, onde eu encontrar cheiro de abacate, ela vai estar um bocadinho lá.

To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else.

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

ن إستطاع الحياة ..فليحيا بين السطور ..و رغماً عن الظروف ..و أمام كل الصِعاب ..لكن أن تعجز عن رسم معنى ..و أن لا تصيغ حرفاً ..صارَ السلامُ حرباً .....و إن كنا على ريشٍ من نعام ..

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own.

Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.