4,370 Quotes About Literature

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

You get the best photos, the best literature, the best poems, the best art while working for your own pleasure with your own inner peace!

Écrire, c'est faire appel au lecteur pour qu'il fasse passer à l'existence objective le dévoilement que j'ai entrepris par le moyen du langage.

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

The universe and the void: I’ll return to these two terms, between which swings the aim of literature, and which often seem to mean the same thing.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.