4,370 Quotes About Literature

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.—Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius rising tracked behind on dusk’s purpling adeep. Scratched he his chin; counted the cold and early evening stars,He had miles to go that night, they being so very far.Only the music of the wint’ring span,Vanished he away in the shimmering land. . . . . . .

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.