Literature Quotes · Page 37

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

— Teju Cole

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

— Daphne Kalotay

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

— Derrick Jensen

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow,…

— Phil Jones

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -…

— Frederik Pohl

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

— Deborah Harkness

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a…

— Max Jacob

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across…

— Virgil

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many…

— Alexander Payne

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out…

— Marguerite Young

“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at…

— Foz Meadows

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab,…

— Malcolm Lowry

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the…

— Aristotle

“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions…

— Abhijit Naskar

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it…

— William Butler Yeats

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

— Matthew Specktor

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”

— The Prolific Penman

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

— Nick Johnson

“My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…”

— Subhajit Ganguly

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

— Gertrude Stein

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...”

— George Bernard Shaw

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

— Rosemary Wells

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin