Literature Quotes · Page 46

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

— Christian Bauman

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

— Joyce Carol Oates

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

— Francis Quarles

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist…

— Idina Menzel

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader…

— Arti Honrao

I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation,…

— Olga Tokarczuk

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,…

— Don DeLillo

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation…

— Donald Barthelme

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

— Adrienne Rich

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives…

— Anatole Broyard

“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what…

— C.S. Lewis

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you…

— Annie Besant

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them…

— Barbara Cooney

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm…

— Richard Rodriguez

In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human…

— Murray Bookchin

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you…

— John Ratzenberger

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society…

— Kim Hyesoon

It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and…

— Paul Dirac

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

— Arthur Symons

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

— Samuel Alito

“Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.”

— Prex J.D.V. Ybasco

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

— Anonymous

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

— Francois Duvalier

“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.”

— Amos Oz

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

— William Jones

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

— Fernando Pessoa

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli