Literature Quotes · Page 211

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to…

— Julie Walters

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made…

— Henry Miller

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal…

— Leopold Auer

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good…

— James Kisner

In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its…

— Northrop Frye

[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is…

— David Duke

Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and…

— Israel Horovitz

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

— Charles Dickens

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a…

— Raymond Chandler

I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature…

— William P. Young

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define…

— Tom Shippey

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

— Nel Noddings

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

— George Henry Lewes

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

— Anonymous

I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick…

— Ramin Bahrani

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

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

— Edith Hamilton

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are…

— Kathy Acker

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

— Albert Bandura

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

— T. S. Eliot

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,…

— Frank O'Connor

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

— Marcus Aurelius

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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