Literature Quotes

"The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." "For more, you can refer to his books or speeches directly." "Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read" "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other." "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." "Literature is news that stays news." "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." "I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"