Literature Quotes

"This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper" "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities" "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything You read and you’re pierced" "The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity" "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return" "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" "It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook." "To sorrow I bade good morrow" "Books break the shackles of time proof that humans can work magic" "A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice all at once"