Literature Quotes · Page 44

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

— Mark Haddon

“The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.”

— Vera B. Williams

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

— Max Pam

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

— Roger Ebert

“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?”

— C.S. Lewis

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

— Rita Mae Brown

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy”

— Michel Serres

“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind…

— Sergio Troncoso

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

— William James

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is…

— Henry Seidel Canby

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…

— Thomas M. Disch

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught…

— Mark Haddon

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

— Sherman Alexie

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as…

— Paulo Freire

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…

— William James

The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge…

— Emmanuel Macron

If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I…

— Ben Kingsley

"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of…

— Tucker Carlson

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can…

— Michael Morpurgo

“In general, [. . .] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when…

— Gore Vidal

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a…

— Loren D. Estleman

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

— Jean Racine

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

— David Baddiel

“Mockery and nagging have always been at play, But me hurting me is the ultimate Mayday.”

— Ritu Negi

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

— Herman Melville

“Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tiny literature under the big words.”

— Harken Headers

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

— Tayari Jones

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around”

— David Lodge

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

— Henry David Thoreau

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

— Louis Dudek

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

— Vivian Gornick

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

— Karl Kraus

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

— Piers Anthony

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner”

— Richard Wright

“Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.”

— Dejan Stojanovic