Literature Quotes · Page 67

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

— Jessa Crispin

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

— Christopher Bollen

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

— Pamela Dean

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

— Ezra Pound

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.”

— Caroline George

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does…

— David Brin

“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,…

— Italo Calvino

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of…

— Patricia Lockwood

I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if…

— Hilary Hahn

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found…

— Eyvind Kang

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,…

— Mary McCarthy

Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been…

— Mak_786

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of…

— Virginia Woolf

I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music…

— Jonathan Hull

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from…

— Pablo Picasso

“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious…

— Danielle Trussoni

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one…

— Lynn Margulis

“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of…

— Walter Pater

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores…

— Franz Kafka

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it…

— Northrop Frye

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

— Julio Cortazar

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

— Julia Glass

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Agnes Repplier

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

— Stephen Fry

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

— Gao Xingjian

“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.”

— Patience Johnson

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

— Philip Roth

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

— James Herbert

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

— Doris Lessing

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley