Literature Quotes · Page 33

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

— Ross Wetzsteon

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”

— Don DeLillo

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

— Alfred de Vigny

I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

— Rumaan Alam

Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in…

— Kim Hyesoon

“God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to…

— Patience Johnson

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that…

— Martha Ronk

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our…

— Henry David Thoreau

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to…

— Charles Williams

“In general, [. . .] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when…

— Gore Vidal

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can…

— Michael Morpurgo

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to…

— Clarice Lispector

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very…

— Colin Wilson

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a…

— Nick Antosca

“Literature is as old as human language, and as new as tomorrow's sunrise. And literature is everywhere, not only in books, but…

— Ronald Carter

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

“There are actually undiscovered books in tiny bookstore nooks waiting to be discovered. Doesn’t that get you excited?”

— Todd B. Vick

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

— Geoffrey Miller

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

— Alexander Smith

“Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.”

— Ahmed Mayouf

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

— Eleanor Catton

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

— Ben Okri

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

— George Meredith

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

— Thomas Bernhard

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”

— Nick Hornby

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

— Henrik Ibsen

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

— Harvey Pekar