Literature Quotes · Page 23

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All those big words produce disgust today.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Real literature, great literature, moves people.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

There is nothing political about American literature.

— Laura Bush

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

— Stephen Daldry

I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science.

— Liu Cixin

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

— Carolyn Wells

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

— Anthony Burgess

“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.”

— Brian Herbert

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

— Tom Spanbauer

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

— Sherman Alexie

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around…

— Danny Fox

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people…

— Gao Xingjian

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic…

— Alejandro Zambra

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

— Wallace Stevens

“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships…

— Anna Quindlen

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -…

— Frederik Pohl

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow,…

— Phil Jones

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue…

— Julianna Baggott

I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change…

— Richard P. Rumelt

“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the…

— Sam Kean

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen…

— Derek Walcott

Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance…

— Andrew Latimer

“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing…

— Gloria Goldreich

“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them…

— A. D. Patel

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy…

— Margaret Atwood

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

— Adrienne Rich

[Science is] the literature of truth.

— Josh Billings

Literature is a house with many mansions.

— Howard Jacobson

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

— Samuel Johnson

I love English and literature.

— Mickie James

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

— David Brin