Literature Quotes

All literature is political.

— LeVar Burton

A star needs a star.

— Dejan Stojanovic

All literature is gossip.

— Truman Capote

Earth is the source of light.

— Dejan Stojanovic

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright

Death swallows death.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Love is an act of courage.

— Paulo Freire

A great speech is literature.

— Peggy Noonan

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

Every man's memory is his private literature.

— Aldous Huxley

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

— William Maxwell

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

— Dana Stabenow

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

— Salvador de Madariaga

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.

— Peter Handke

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

— Charles Dickens

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

— Ellen Glasgow

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

— John Adams

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.”

— Stefanos Livos

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

— Anonymous

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

— Yahoo Serious

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— Dejan Stojanovic

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…

— William James

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

— Gore Vidal

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I…

— Dawn Richard

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional…

— Mark Twain

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it…

— Lewis Carroll

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

— Frederick Busch

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but…

— Anton Chekhov

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…

— William T. Vollmann

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our…

— George Henry Lewes

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one…

— Dennis McKinsey

The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art…

— Jay McInerney

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor