Literature Quotes · Page 66

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

— Nel Noddings

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

— Albert Bandura

“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”

— Krystal McLean

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

— Herta Muller

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

— Roberto Bolano

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

— Herta Muller

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…

— William James

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

— Gore Vidal

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I…

— Dawn Richard

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.…

— Michael Dirda

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it…

— Ruth Glick

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I…

— Elliott Colla

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great,…

— Joanne Harris

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional…

— David Means

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…

— Chinua Achebe

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks…

— David Milch

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution…

— Salman Rushdie

“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes…

— Mary Shelley

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers…

— Washington Irving

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

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

— Samuel Butler

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