Literature Quotes · Page 36

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

— Douglas Gresham

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

— Dejan Stojanovic

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

— John Henry Newman

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

— Yehuda Amichai

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or…

— Robert Bringhurst

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the…

— Helen Dunmore

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to…

— Marita Bonner

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on…

— John Steinbeck

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

— Ian Mcewan

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue…

— Julianna Baggott

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen…

— Derek Walcott

I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change…

— Richard P. Rumelt

“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the…

— Sam Kean

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range…

— Alain de Botton

Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination…

— William James

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which…

— David Bennun

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and…

— Oscar Wilde

Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when…

— Robert Hass

“A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

— Lytton Strachey

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

— Tessa Jowell

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

— William James

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

— Tristan Tzara

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

— Anonymous