Art of life Quote by Harold Bloom

“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It is not…

— Harold Bloom

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.”

— Marcel Proust

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

— Mark Slouka

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa