Top Literature Quotes

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

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

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.

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whi...

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is t...

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary form, and was, fo...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a few...

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our em...

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.