Literature Quotes · Page 43

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

— Susan Howe

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

— John Steinbeck

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

— Nora Roberts

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not…

— Thomas Carlyle

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The…

— Dorothy Allison

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…

— Yann Martel

“I loved her; I didn’t know how to say it without breaking down the autobot façade she saw before her and revealing…

— David Louden

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality…

— Juan Rulfo

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part…

— Christopher Hitchens

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of…

— Anonymous

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by…

— Tom Robbins

“The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they…

— Keira Knightley

A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change…

— Bruno Bettelheim

I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew…

— Nouriel Roubini

Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. He…

— Jack London

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

— Boris Pasternak

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

— Harvey Pekar

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

— Henrik Ibsen

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”

— Nick Hornby

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

— Thomas Bernhard

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

— Basmah bint Saud

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

— Wendell Phillips

“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's…

— John Gaddis