What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.” — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I never find it exciting to go anywhere, you get much more true information from literature than from travelling. — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
“A midst deceit I found the truth; there in the rough I found a diamond. And from the moment we met, I… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
“In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
