Top Literature Quotes

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

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.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

He whom the gods love dies young.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of the...

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passi...

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to se...

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. No, she said softly, Oh no. No. Leave me, said Gavriel. .....Shut up or I might, she told him.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.