Literature Quotes · Page 38

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

— William Butler Yeats

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a…

— Erica Jong

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

— Patrick White

“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.”

— césar aira

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

— Jim Morrison

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

— Mabel Robinson

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

— Walter Jon Williams

“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and…

— Richard Mitchell

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be…

— John Drinkwater

What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one?…

— Elsa Maxwell

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of…

— Oscar Wilde

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense…

— Jeremy Denk

“Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find…

— Sherman Kennon

[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a…

— James Ellis

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for…

— John Steinbeck

I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these…

— Michael Chabon

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them…

— Janet Fitch

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything…

— Milan Kundera

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other…

— Robert Kuttner

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is…

— David Novak

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

— Jean Paul

“Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing…

— Laura Marling

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

— Doris Lessing

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

— Kevin Kelly

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.”

— Aldous Huxley

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and dehydrating!”

— Baret Magarian

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

— Vera Nazarian

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri