4,370 Quotes About Literature

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.

In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.