4,370 Quotes About Literature

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much," Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time.Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.