Literature Quotes · Page 57

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

— Herta Muller

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

— Colin Jost

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.

— Samuel Butler

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of…

— Carrie Coon

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It…

— Sam Neill

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for…

— James Thurber

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just…

— Jonas Mekas

“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like…

— Declan Kiberd

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She…

— Marita Bonner

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention…

— Rita Dove

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch…

— Wilma Mankiller

“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.…

— Kakuzō Okakura

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature…

— Louis Menand

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…

— Northrop Frye

“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the…

— Herman Hesse

“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from…

— Julio Cortázar

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”

— Margot McCuaig

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

— Richard Livingstone

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

— Honore de Balzac

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

— Gretchen Rubin

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

— P. T. Barnum

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

— Miriam Margolyes

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

— Henry Miller

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

“Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

— Edith Wharton

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

— Agnes Repplier