Literature Quotes · Page 63

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

— Amy Lowell

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see…

— Andre Gide

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd…

— Holly Black

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

— Franz Grillparzer

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No,…

— Ben Okri

Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural…

— Zeenat Aman

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…

— Anne Fadiman

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved.…

— James McAvoy

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to…

— Natalie Massenet

Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the…

— Dawoud Bey

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe…

— Dacia Maraini

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English…

— Harold Pinter

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which…

— Virginia Woolf

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -…

— Michael Behe

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

— Mikhail Bakhtin

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

— Anita Brookner

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

— Evan Esar

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

— Anonymous

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

— Porochista Khakpour

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!”

— Lev Grossman

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

— William Butler Yeats

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

— Robert Bringhurst

“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

— Thomas Bowdler