Considering Quote by Washington Irving

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the…

— Milan Kundera

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career,…

— E.H. Chapin

“In the infinite universe of literature there are always other avenues to explore, some brand-new and some exceedingly ancient, styles and forms that can…

— Italo Calvino

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

— Terence McKenna

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will…

— Arnold Bennett

“We have evolved a new cosmogony of literature, Boris and I. It is to be a new Bible - The Last Book. All those…

— Henry Miller

“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class and its…

— Martin Amis

“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of the stained…

— Andrew Peterson

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike