Literature Quotes

"I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro" "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today..." "I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns." "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed" "Don't make much ado about nothing." "There is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches." "A writer’s life is an experiment in biography" "Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book" "Travel? Absurdly easy: with one book out of Toulouse I'm in Florence before five o' the clock." "Fiction is a lie that tells us true things." "For me, the Library is a temple." "Where philosophy is a matter of words and of ideas, poetry is a matter of sounds and of experiences" "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." "It is the tale, not he who tells it" "Books are the mirrors of the soul"