There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author’s own vision.

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren’t together.

The curious fact is that biology tells us nothing about desire. And, when you think about it, culture — novels, movies, opera, and quite a lot of painting — is about desire, how we manage...

Đối với tôi văn chương không phải là một cách đem đến cho người đọc sự thoát ly hay sự quên, trái lại văn chương là một thứ khí giới thanh cao và đắc lực...

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

I’ve always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel – or at least the kind of novel I’m attempting to write. You know,’ he continued, extemporizing as he went along, ‘first you...

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun,...

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind…The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist,...

…and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

A writer’s mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside...

Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how...

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify–capriciously–their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is...

Language is the key to the heart of people.

The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

A la estación se la comen las casas adosadas y luego los campos se comen a las casas, primero vacíos y después salpicados de ovejas. La gente se quita el abrigo y enciende los portátiles...

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights […] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Dualar da şikayet dilekçesi gibidir. Ya yerine ulaşmaz, ya da ulaşsa bile red cevabıyla geri çevrilir.

Güçlü, sağlıklı ve iyi olduğumuz sürece mucizeleri gülerek karşılarız; ama hayatımız, bizi ancak bir mucizenin kurtaracağı şekilde umutsuzca yıkılsın ya da tökezlesin o zaman mucizeye, yalnız ve yalnız o harikulade mucizeye inanırız.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Life eats life to live.

He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.

With your goal you make the one.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement … It is trembling on the edge. A little less – and it would lose its poetry. A little more – and it would be over into the abyss,...

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order...

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect “Item poetry” in novels.

There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a...

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nosebetween the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her,...

His feet went banging down some stairs. He closed his eyes. They went through cinders and dirt, his heels gathering small windrows of trash. A dim world receded above his upturned toes, shapes of skewed...

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there...

Bu suçlamalarda bulunurken, 29 temmuz 1881 tarihli Basın Yasasının 30 ve 31. maddelerine karşı geldiğimi, bu yasanın lekeleme suçlarına ceza belirlediğini bilmiyor değilim. İsteyerek kendimi tehlikeye atıyorum.

Our sporting codes are fast becoming more open and more liberal. Football has its anti-bigotry drives; rugby has Gareth Thomas. But cricket is oddly reticent. When Steven Davies came out in 2011, he was the...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the...