Literature Quotes · Page 42

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

— Mo Yan

“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace”

— E.E. Cummings

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

— Joan Didion

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

— John Burroughs

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

— Jan Neruda

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.”

— Roberto Bolaño

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

— Northrop Frye

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out…

— Jose Saramago

I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says,…

— Ashley Judd

No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between…

— Bill Henson

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of…

— Peter Greenaway

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an…

— Caitriona Balfe

I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature…

— Barry Barish

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances…

— Eric Hoffer

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle…

— Connie Willis

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I…

— Julia Alvarez

Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over…

— Marvin Mudrick

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This…

— Jerzy Kosiński

I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where…

— Jonathan Meades

“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels…

— Anita Phillips

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears…

— Richard M. Weaver

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

— T. S. Eliot

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

— Anonymous

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

— Sally Rooney

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

— Vera Nazarian

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

— James Ponsoldt

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”

— Carlos Fuentes

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

— Anonymous

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

— Wallace Stevens

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

— John Williams

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

— Horace

Life is not a essay or speech instead its a Literature, where every end has a bew beginning.

— Author Lekha