Authors
All Time Famous Quotes of Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK:20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Aristophanes
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC),son of Philippus and Zenodora, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum),was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Aesop
Aesop (formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters’ psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. Stendhal Quotes 1. […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and “the first great novel of world literature”. Miguel […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. Marcel Proust Quotes 1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a Persian 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi’s works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse. Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi Quotes 1. “Your task is […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler. Italo Calvino Quotes 1. “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as “the Certaldese”[nb 2] and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. […]
Read More
All Time Famous Quotes of Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the […]
Read More