Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for…

— Jorge Luis Borges

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if…

— Aleksandar Hemon

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton

What is written is more influential than what is said.

— James Cook

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are…

— Oscar Wilde