Top Literature Quotes

  • the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string – Virginia Woolf

    the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string– Virginia Woolf

  • We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? – Rick Yancey

    We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?– Rick Yancey

  • Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art. – Megan Frazer Blakemore

    Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.– Megan Frazer Blakemore

  • Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world! – Mehmet Murat ildan

    Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!– Mehmet Murat ildan

  • We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while! – Mehmet Murat ildan

    We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!– Mehmet Murat ildan

  • Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories. – Carolyn Weber

    Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.– Carolyn Weber

  • Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. – Vladimir Nabokov

    Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics. – Michael Foley

    Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.– Michael Foley

  • Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art. – Lisa C Taylor

    Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.– Lisa C Taylor

  • I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. – James Branch Cabell

    I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.– James Branch Cabell