Literature quotes
Welcome to our collection of Literature quotes! Immerse yourself in the magical world of words, where imagination knows no bounds and stories come alive on the pages of books. Whether you're an avid reader, a passionate writer, or simply someone who appreciates the power of literature, this collection is sure to inspire and transport you into different worlds.
From the classics to contemporary works, Literature encompasses a vast array of genres and styles. Here, you will find quotes from renowned authors, poets, and playwrights who have left their mark on the literary landscape. Dive into the wisdom and insights of literary giants, and discover the beauty and depth that can be found within the written word.
Discover quotes that celebrate the power of storytelling, the influence of books, and the profound impact that literature can have on our lives. Whether it's a thought-provoking line from a novel, a lyrical verse from a poem, or a captivating monologue from a play, these quotes capture the essence of what makes literature such a cherished art form.
So, join us as we explore the world of Literature through the words of those who have shaped it. Let these quotes ignite your imagination, stir your emotions, and remind you of the timeless beauty that lies within the pages of a good book. Get ready to embark on a literary journey like no other!
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorSometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Rebecca Godfrey
— Intriguing Author & Investigative JournalistI've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.
Peter Gay
— Noted Cultural HistorianWhat interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Len Wiseman
— Talented Filmmaker of "Underworld"Science fiction is an extension of science.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIt's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterCensorship is the mother of metaphor.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsAll poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIn a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
Joyce Carol Oates
— Author[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorLiterature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterBesides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIt is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorReading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLiterature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI am always reading or thinking about reading.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLiterature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorEven as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIn fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterOne literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIn the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterImprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLike all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIn the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAll literature, is, finally autobiographical.