Literature Quotes · Page 61

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

— Dejan Stojanovic

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

— Jack Kerouac

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

— Ben Dolnick

“En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.”

— Patience Johnson

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.…

— Isabel Allende

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English…

— James Delingpole

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice…

— William C. Brown

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the…

— Aldous Huxley

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting…

— Khaled Hosseini

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a…

— May Sarton

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however,…

— W.G. Sebald

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over…

— Paul Di Filippo

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for…

— Jorge Luis Borges

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but…

— Oscar Wilde

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of…

— Graeme Goldsworthy

I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen,…

— Patch Adams

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

— E. L. Doctorow

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

— Andre Maurois

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

— Jose Marti

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

— John Dewey

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

— William Rounseville Alger

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

— Sherman Alexie

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

— Gregory David Roberts

“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

— Jasper Fforde