Quotes About Writing and
Literature
- "Develop an interest in life as you see it;
the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply
throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people.
Forget yourself."—Henry Miller
- "Great literature is
simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."—Ezra
Pound
- "I hold that a writer who does not
passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor
any membership in literature." —John Steinbeck
- "It is in literature that the concrete
outlook of humanity receives its expression."—Alfred North Whitehead
- "It takes a great deal of history to produce
a little literature."—Henry James
- "Literature adds to reality, it does not
simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life
requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that
our lives have already become."—C.S. Lewis
- "The crown of literature is poetry."—William
Somerset Maugham
- "The decline of literature indicates the
decline of a nation."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." —Robert Louis Stevenson
- "What is wonderful about great literature is
that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man
who wrote."—E.M. Forster
- "While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living."—Cyril Connolly
- “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
- · “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” ― The Living
