Literature Quotes · Page 35

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

— Vera Nazarian

“Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and dehydrating!”

— Baret Magarian

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

“Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.”

— Aldous Huxley

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

— Kevin Kelly

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his…

— David Louden

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

— Jack Kirby

There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including…

— Ryan North

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality…

— Frederik Pohl

“I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the…

— Roberto Bolaño

As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I…

— Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm…

— Richard Rodriguez

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them…

— Barbara Cooney

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you…

— Annie Besant

“Burnout at its deepest level is not the result of some train wreck of examinations, long call shifts, or poor clinical evaluations.…

— Richard Gunderman

Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

— Doris Lessing

“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”

— Susan Meissner

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”

— Virginia Woolf

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

— Ray Bradbury

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

— Oprah Winfrey

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

— Jean Rostand

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

— Peter Medawar

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

— John Gregory Dunne

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes