Day life Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can…

— Rebecca West

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation is a…

— Henry Beston

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is well, inasmuch…

— Charlotte Brontë

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky