Literature Quotes

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" "Literature is news that stays news." "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "Literature is the magic carpet that flies us to the most wonderful places." "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors" "In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward" "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" "There is no friend as loyal as a book" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "Call me Ishmael."