Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)