Literature Quotes · Page 35

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

— Josh Hutcherson

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

— Georg Brandes

“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

— Jordan Peterson

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

— Carol Bly

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around…

— Danny Fox

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle…

— Elizabeth Wein

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it…

— Ian Mcewan

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing…

— Bruce Sterling

“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the…

— Michael Richardson

I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature.…

— Frank Moore Cross

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read…

— Amy Elizabeth Smith

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy…

— Margaret Atwood

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them…

— A. D. Patel

“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing…

— Gloria Goldreich

Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance…

— Andrew Latimer

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

— David Lodge

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

— Andrew Bird

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

— Samuel Beckett

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

— Shimon Peres

“He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

— A. B. Yehoshua

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

— Orhan Pamuk

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

— Virginia Woolf

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

— Rex Murphy