Anything Quote by Errol Morris

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

— Salman Rushdie

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

Reverence is fatal to literature.

— E. M. Forster

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might…

— Anonymous

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

— Rick Warren

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms that can…

— Italo Calvino

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel