Literature Quotes

"Invisible cities are a dream that rises to the sky and falls back to the earth to become solid again" "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts" "I want to write the saddest lines tonight." "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure" "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "It was a pleasure to burn" "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture." "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."