Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
– Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Discover New Literary Quotes
Quotes From a Wide Range of Authors & Books
We all have our connections with literature, wittingly or not so wittingly.
– Martin Amis The Information
If God were too eager to please, who would worship Him?
– John Updike In the Beauty of the Lillies
A man can think his mind to a nub and not know anything about God. He’s got to die, I reckon to find out…
– A.B. Gutherie, Jr The Big Sky
A writer cannot change the world; his duty is to describe it.
– John Hersey The Conspiracy
Because reading presupposed a future. It had to do with fortification.
– Martin Amis London Fields
Belief is believing in God; faith is believing that God believes in you.
– Christina Henriquez, from Andres Dubus “A Father’s Story” in “Come Together, Fall Apart”
Books are where things are explained to your; life is where things aren’t.
– Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot
