4,370 Quotes About Literature

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.