Books Quote by Paul De Man

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give…

— Italo Calvino

“A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more…

— Friedrich Schlegel

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”

— Amy Joy

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the real sense…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is…

— Roland Barthes

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

“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even of any…

— David Foster Wallace

“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,…

— James Baldwin

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa