Literature Quotes

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"A book is not a thing confined within bindings; it is a living instrument of consciousness."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"Literature is the conversation between generations; it is humanity speaking to itself."

"I am a writer and I take all kinds of liberties with reality."

"To write is to forge in the smithy of one's soul the uncreated conscience of my race."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

"A book is a dream that you can hold in your hand."

"To write is to have thoughts; to speak is to have words."

"The love of reading furnishes a mind with materials of wisdom."

"The writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution"

"What is literature but a way of escaping from our condition"

"The writer's work is to describe the world faithfully as he sees it"

"In order to understand literature, we must understand life."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument."

"Each reader is, when reading, the reader of his own self."

"Literature is the mirror of the human soul."

"Literature is the garden where humanity cultivates its soul."

"Literature is the mirror in which we see ourselves."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"Literature is the most noble of all sciences and the most vain of professions."

"Great writers invent languages within the language."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"Literature is the most beautiful of all arts."

"Literature preserves human experience."

"Writing is both discovery and creation."

"The reader is a freedom who makes the work possible."

"Literature engages the freedom of the reader."

"The most mediocre of male writers is still, to a woman writer, a kind of male."