Literature Quotes

"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life" "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "All that glisters is not gold" "O brave new world that has such people in it" "It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story." "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads" "It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for him" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" "What light through yonder window breaks?" "I am one who loved not wisely but too well." "Words without thoughts never to heaven go." "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself." "I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going" "This is a work of fiction, but believe me, none of this is invented." "Books were my pass to personal freedom."