Quotes on Best Literature

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Literature is news that stays news.