Literature Quotes · Page 54

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

— Patrick White

“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.”

— césar aira

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a…

— Erica Jong

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

— William Butler Yeats

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

— Jean Rostand

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

— Oprah Winfrey

Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but…

— Walter Kirn

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand…

— Anne Stevenson

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of…

— Georges Bataille

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to…

— Michelle Zauner

“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life…

— Matthew Quick

“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the…

— Walter Kirn

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,…

— Anonymous

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of…

— Zakaria Tamer

I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural…

— Matt de la Pena

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with…

— Walter Dean Myers

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

— John Gregory Dunne

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

— Peter Medawar

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”

— Susan Meissner

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

— Ray Bradbury

“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”

— Virginia Woolf

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.”

— Aldous Huxley

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover