Literature Quotes · Page 33

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”

— Anne Garréta

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

“These fragments, these shivers of my heart Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute”

— Zubair Ahsan

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have…

— Chath Piersath

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and…

— Roger Ebert

For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the…

— Anonymous

Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

“Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.”

— Megan Frazer Blakemore

“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with…

— Roland Barthes

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,…

— Nicola Griffith

I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of…

— Michael Ruhlman

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years…

— Susan Sontag

“I read and re-read the books I had brought. The quality of the book didn’t matter. What was important was that there…

— Sooyong Park

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,…

— Anton Chekhov

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

— Werner Herzog

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

— Terry Eagleton

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

— Simone de Beauvoir

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

— Wendy Lesser

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

— D. H. Lawrence

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

— Samuel Lover

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

— Lyn Hejinian

“I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”

— Holly Black

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader…

— Marcus Garvey