Literature Quotes · Page 28

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”

— Avah Marie

Our literature is in great shape.

— James Welch

[Science is] the literature of truth.

— Josh Billings

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

— Adrienne Rich

“Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

— Karin Slaughter

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

— Seamus Heaney

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

— Rex Stout

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

— Elie Wiesel

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

— Jamie Hince

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

— Anna Quindlen

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

— Amos Oz

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

— Chinua Achebe

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with…

— Ed Kashi

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,…

— Ellen Glasgow

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less…

— Leslie Fiedler

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand…

— Henry Adams

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.…

— Joan Collins

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job…

— Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the…

— Bonnie Grove

I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being…

— Walter Isaacson

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James

Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it…

— Michael C. McMillen

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and…

— Agnes Repplier

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now…

— Chris Abani

“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered…

— Alice Walker

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,…

— Louis Aragon

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

— David Brin

I love English and literature.

— Mickie James

Literature is a house with many mansions.

— Howard Jacobson

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

— Samuel Johnson

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

— David Eagleman

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

— Leonard Michaels

“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.”

— Roman Payne