Literature Quotes

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."

"The only morality in literature is that which arises naturally from the story itself."

"I love a good mystery and a good love story."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

"Writers aren't people exactly. Or if they're any people at all, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."

"Patience is the one talent a writer needs."

"Literature should hold up a mirror to society's true face, however ugly."

"I write not for the learned, but for the common people."

"The pen is mightier than the sword in the battle for human souls."

"A writer who does not feel the immensity of his responsibility cannot be great."

"A writer must learn to listen to the story the world is already telling."

"A work of literature should hold a mirror to the soul, not just the face."

"A woman who writes has already claimed her freedom."

"Literature preserves the human spirit."

"Literature gives voice to the voiceless."

"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure, and very dead."

"Literature must be an examination of life in all its aspects."

"Literature opens doors to worlds we could never otherwise visit."

"The understanding of poetry comes hard to those who have no sense of its beauty."

"In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself."

"A reading habit is a luxury no thoughtful person should be without."

"There are some things about which I would spend any money, but I would never buy a new book when I could read an old one."

"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, it seems to me, is created."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"A writer must observe, must absorb, and then must understand what has been absorbed."

"Literature should depict life as it actually is, not as we wish it to be."

"The love of literature opens worlds that geography alone cannot traverse."

"Great authors are those who understand that life itself is the greatest story."

"Literature holds up a mirror to society and asks it to see itself."