Literature Quotes · Page 30

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

“I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.”

— Salvador Plascencia

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

— William Faulkner

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as…

— Paulo Freire

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

— Sherman Alexie

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught…

— Mark Haddon

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…

— Thomas M. Disch

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is…

— Henry Seidel Canby

“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with…

— Arthur Henry King

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.…

— Kate Zambreno

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of…

— Tucker Carlson

If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I…

— Ben Kingsley

The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge…

— Emmanuel Macron

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…

— William James

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

— Philip Kitcher

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

— Amy Lowell

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see…

— Andre Gide

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

— Julien Torma

I have grown up in a family where cinema, literature and music are highly valued.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

— Barry Jenkins

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

— Norman Mailer

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

— Philippa Pearce

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

— Delmore Schwartz

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”

— Anonymous