Literature Quotes · Page 31

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

— Oscar Wilde

“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider”

— Mala Naidoo

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

— Ada Leverson

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

— Sherman Alexie

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers…

— Dean Koontz

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I…

— Alejandro Zambra

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

— Samuel Beckett

“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.”

— Akash Lakhotia

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

— Diane Setterfield

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

— Rafael Moneo

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live…

— Anonymous

“The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past…

— John Williams

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was…

— Rick Riordan

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of…

— Jacques Derrida

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and…

— Jules Michelet

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the…

— Elizabeth Drew

“Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and…

— Terry Eagleton

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.…

— Joseph Brodsky

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for…

— Edmund Gosse

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

— Gregory David Roberts

“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

— Sam Tanenhaus

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

— Doris Lessing

Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts

— Kevin Knight

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

— Herman Wouk

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

— William H. Gass

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

“...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

— Daphne Kalotay

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

— Blaise Pascal

“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.”

— Terry Eagleton

“Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory— Terra Nostra.”

— Dejan Stojanovic