Literature Quotes

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths " "The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature" "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" "The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life" "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "Immature poets imitate mature poets steal" "From hell's heart I stab at thee for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" "There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness" "Although every great writer will recognized as unique, the fact is that the art of literature is not just an individual voice but a relationship between writer and reader" "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." "I have nothing to declare except my genius." "What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books" "Every man's memory is his private literature" "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading" "The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government" "Please, sir, I want some more" "The poetry of the earth is never dead" "Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" "The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it"