Literature Quotes

"Literature and science are both attempts to understand the human condition."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."

"The person who reads lives a thousand lives before he dies."

"Literature gives voice to the voiceless and hearing to the deaf."

"Literature is the footprints of humanity across the sands of time."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"Literature is a conversation across centuries with our truest selves."

"Literature reminds us we are not alone in our struggles."

"We are all texts that must be read and reread, interpreted anew."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits."

"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"Literature is the conversation between the living and the dead."

"Literature teaches us to see through other eyes."

"Representation is never neutral; it always involves choices about what to include and exclude."

"The nation imagines itself through narratives of kinship and belonging."

"The body tells stories that language cannot articulate."

"I have tried recently to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"The world makes sense through the stories we tell about it."

"The world is not made of atoms; it is made of stories."

"We need better stories, not truer ones."

"We are creatures of stories, and we are accountable for the stories we tell."

"To write is to claim a space in culture."

"Women's writing is a form of political intervention."

"Writing is a practice of freedom."

"Writing is an act of becoming."

"We must learn to read against the grain of culture."

"We are shaped by the stories we tell about ourselves and the world."

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

"Literature teaches us how to live with ambiguity and complexity."

"Stories about monsters and heroes shape how we live."