Literature Quotes · Page 28

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates…

— Henry David Thoreau

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which…

— Margaret Fuller

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean…

— Cynthia Ozick

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly…

— M. H. Abrams

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to…

— Italo Calvino

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists…

— Rebecca Solnit

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

— Louis Menand

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

— Victor Hugo

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

— Ravi Shankar

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

— William Empson

There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.…

— Peter Beinart

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the…

— William C. Brown

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

— Samuel Butler

Literature is a house with many mansions.

— Howard Jacobson

“Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with…

— Anonymous

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons…

— Marcus Garvey

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also…

— Grace Potter

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.…

— Margaret Atwood