Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to be

Summary

This quote suggests that a great piece of literature should not be forceful or manipulative in trying to impose its beliefs or ideas onto the reader. Instead, it should exist as a reflection of truth, allowing individuals to interpret and derive their own understanding from it. People often mistakenly perceive powerful literature as a roadmap or guide to follow, but this quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing that it is merely a representation of truth, not a prescribed set of instructions or ideologies.

Topics

Truth Literature

By Madeleine L'Engle

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Morgan has the artist's mind; he says the simple things that

Morgan has the artist's mind; he says the simple things that clever people don't say; I find him the best of critics for that reason. Suddenly out comes the obvious thing that one has overlooked.

People Mind

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,T

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It

Cancer

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is litt

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Reason

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Happiness

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no p

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

Joseph Campbell

Life Inspirational Way

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great ins

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Success & Failure

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He f

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Man Mankind

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Age

Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclu

Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkne

Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.

Sayagyi U Ba Khin

Inspirational Spiritual

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully cl

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Morning