Literature Quotes

"To write well, one must have something to say and the courage to say it."

"A good book is like a friend; it enriches the soul."

"A writer who says that there are no rules is rather like a tennis player who says you need not trouble to aim at the court."

"The pen is mightier than even the sword."

"The pen of the writer must serve truth above all."

"A writer who says that there are no limits to expression is a fool. The human condition is the limit."

"The supreme question about any written work is simply this: has it the shape and significance of all things that endure?"

"Writing is the most intimate of all the arts; it is you alone with your reader."

"The written word is that which endures; the spoken word is that which vanishes."

"To write is to bleed onto the page what burns within the soul."

"The pen wields more power than any sword ever forged."

"The pages of a book hold more worlds than any empire ever conquered."

"To write one's own story is to claim dominion over one's destiny."

"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."

"Literature is the mirror of life."

"Literature opens doors to infinite worlds."

"Through literature, we live a thousand lives."

"The pen is a mighty instrument."

"The writing of memoirs is something a man cannot undertake without a kind of impiety."

"Fiction should never attempt to ape truth."

"Writing when properly managed is but a different name for conversation."

"Literature is the most agreeable of ways to ignore life."

"Literature is the most direct way of knowing oneself."

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

"Literature is the preserved voice of those long departed."

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

"If you cannot produce and maintain the conviction in your reader that the things you're writing about matter, then none of the rest of it matters."

"A novel is a secret history of the author's own heart laid bare."

"I have not the slightest pretension to write novels, but I have written novels nonetheless."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."