Top Literature Quotes

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Literature Definition

(n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

(n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

(n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

(n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no develop...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

Two girls walk past in gargantuan heels and dresses so tight that their skin is spilling out, and one of them says to the other, Wait, who the fuck is Lewis Carroll? and in my imagination I pull a gun...

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.