Literature Quotes

"Stories are instructions for how to live."

"Newspapers are the literature of the common man, the voice of the streets."

"I have woven my life into my verses as a spider weaves its web."

"To understand a nation, read its poetry and songs."

"In the space between what we say and what we mean lives poetry."

"To write is to bear witness to the human condition."

"Remarks are not literature."

"In these days one can say that the writer writes in order to write."

"Think of the Bible and Homer and think of the things written in the last two thousand years."

"I want readers to think about what I am writing while they are reading."

"Punctuation is in favour of periodic sentences, of books."

"For me the theatre is no longer a play but a story of the human heart."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"A poem is best read in the mood it invites."

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"The test of literature is its power to think for us."

"Do not go to poets for wisdom; go to them for beauty and illumination."

"To understand one's nation, one must first understand its poetry."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

"Stories are important. They keep us alive. In the ships, in the camps, in the quarters, in the fields."

"Literature is the most accessible of the arts, and therein lies its power."

"To tell our stories is to claim our humanity."

"I think we have to own the movies that are made about us."

"Literature preserves the stories that power wishes to forget."

"I want to write so that people will hear my voice; they won't forget it."

"Literature holds the mirror to society."

"Stories are important. They keep us alive."

"The writer's job is to tell the truth."