Literature Quotes · Page 60

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant…

— Miriam Toews

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

— Gene Wolfe

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

— Confucius

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

— Carl Sandburg

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”

— Roman Payne

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

— Jose Bergamin

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

— John Green

“Literature is my Utopia...No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends”

— Helen Keller

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…

— Adam Gopnik

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature,…

— Harvey Keitel

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament…

— Frank Moore Cross

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going,…

— William Golding

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.…

— Gary Shteyngart

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic…

— Taron Egerton

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

— Nelson Algren

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people…

— Irvine Welsh

Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell…

— Adam Gopnik

A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself…

— John Zerzan

“Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough…

— Erica Jong

“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.…

— Lillian R. Melendez

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade…

— Donald Barthelme

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be…

— Marilynne Robinson

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…

— Mike Tyson

We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last…

— Dorianne Laux

“It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.”

— Marty Johncox

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

— Julia Alvarez

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

“Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.”

— Stephen Crane

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

— Ernest Hemingway

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

— Susan Sontag

“It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.”

— Diane Ackerman

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

— Pramila Jayapal

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

— Edward Young

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane