Absurd Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a…

— Teju Cole

“What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct speech by…

— Robert Alter

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

— James Russell Lowell

“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him,…

— Jacques Derrida

“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he…

— Céleste Albaret

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

— Brooks Atkinson

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment…

— Alain de Botton

“It's wrong to take even those occasional long sentences in the Quixote with loose structures, and subdivide, tighten and correct them because they are…

— John Rutherford

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing…

— Andreï Makine

“The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in…

— Edgar Allan Poe