Quotes About Literature

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

If you don't read you will have nothing to write.

The history of man is a must read poetry.

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.

Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

I'm a writer. I write stuff.

A life without books is like body without a soul.

Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life.

Virginia Woolf

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.