Literature Quotes

"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me" "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." "The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing." "I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy" "When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed" "The art of reading is to skip judiciously" "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" "Tilda Swinton is primarily known as an actress and not an author, and she does not have any famous quotes as an author." "In my mind, the plays I was reading in college, they all had gay characters or trans characters in them" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" "Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us." "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." "I can resist everything except temptation." "Of all things, I liked books best." "It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful." "A man should always have his diary on him. That way, he’s guaranteed to have something incredible to read." "I am a part of everything that I have read." "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." "Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." "You cannot open a book without learning something."