Literature Quotes · Page 41

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“There are actually undiscovered books in tiny bookstore nooks waiting to be discovered. Doesn’t that get you excited?”

— Todd B. Vick

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

— Alfred de Vigny

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”

— Don DeLillo

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human…

— Tom Waits

“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there…

— Ruth Ozeki

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,…

— Richard Carmona

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four…

— John Barth

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of…

— May Sarton

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not…

— Alan Bennett

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life,…

— Mark Twain

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart.…

— John Ruskin

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to…

— Norman Maclean

“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature…

— Paul Kalanithi

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and…

— James Cameron

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.…

— Iris Murdoch

I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the…

— How to Dress Well

If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -…

— Steve Green

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

— Ross Wetzsteon

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

— George Meredith

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

— Ben Okri

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

— Eleanor Catton

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

“Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.”

— Ahmed Mayouf

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

— Alexander Smith

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

— Geoffrey Miller

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

— Don Marquis

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

— Kay Ryan