Literary Quotes
Find one of the best and famous quote catagorized into topics like inspirational, motivations, deep, thoughtful, art, success, passion, frindship, life, love and many more.
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life"
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that has just appeared and I find myself reading the same book I have read a hundred times."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."
Quote by -James Thurber
"At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher."
Quote by -James Thurber
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
Quote by -Alice Walker
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
Quote by -Alice Walker
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Quote by -Alice Walker
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
Quote by -Edgar Allan Poe
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Quote by -Walt C Whitman
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
Quote by -Aristotle
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
Quote by -Buddha
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
Quote by -Booker T Washington
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary
Quote by -Booker T Washington
“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
I miss writing, creating, and working on bigger projects. YES to that means NO to any games of whack-a-mole.
Quote by -Tim Firris
“She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
"The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon."
Quote by -Malala Yousafzai