Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reverence is fatal to literature.

— E. M. Forster

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Today literature must either be protest or consolation”

— Elie Wiesel

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a…

— Bill Buford

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir