Literary Wisdom Quotes

#1. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.

Umberto Eco

#2. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater

#3. I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Norman Mailer

#4. The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

Trip Lee

#5. My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

Tom Robbins

#6. Do not fear, said his voice inside her head. It would take more than a single human cry to wake these dead.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Justin Bog

#9. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#10. It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.

Ryan Hall

#11. The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

F.C. Malby

#12. The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#13. It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jacqueline Carey

#14. One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Harold Bloom

#15. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#17. Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom.

Orna Ross

#18. By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

Barry Schuler

#19. The story we write today will support the next generation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Paul Ricoeur