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Literature13 quotes
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. — Mark Twain · 1884Prose is for ideas,
Verse is for visions. — Henrik Ibsen · 1871That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1938Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1848Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901All 13 quotes →Power of literature3 quotes
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1938Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1848Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. — Jhumpa Lahiri · 2012Power of words2 quotes
Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1848Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. — Jhumpa Lahiri · 2012Writing2 quotes
Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1848Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. — Jhumpa Lahiri · 2012Books1 quote
A novel is an impression, not an argument. — Thomas Hardy · 1891Fiction1 quote
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901Interpretation and analysis1 quote
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. — Mark Twain · 1884Novels1 quote
A novel is an impression, not an argument. — Thomas Hardy · 1891Poetry1 quote
Prose is for ideas,
Verse is for visions. — Henrik Ibsen · 1871Stories1 quote
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901Truth1 quote
Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015Truth vs. fiction1 quote
Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that. — Salman Rushdie · 2015