Quotes about Literature, page 5

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Quote by Haruki Murakami about literature

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

Quote by Pierre Loti about literature

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

Quote by Pierre Loti about literature

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Quote by Molière about literature

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Quote by Molière about literature

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Quote by Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer about literature

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Quote by Susan Sontag about literature

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature

The crown of literature is poetry.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about literature

Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about literature

You, O Queen, are the fairest here, But Snow White, who has gone to stay With the seven dwarfs far, far away, Is a thousand times more fair. Snow White

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about literature

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Quote by Frank Norris about literature

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Quote by Kenneth Grahame about literature

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Quote by Kenneth Grahame about literature

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Quote by Hugo Claus about literature

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Quote by Raymond Chandler about literature