Literature Quotes · Page 37

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

— Marcus Aurelius

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

— Jerome Bruner

Dryden's literature helps us to the study of the human nature.

— RMKATTA

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last…

— Benjamin Moser

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and…

— James Frey

Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have…

— Herman Hesse

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something…

— Steven Heighton

I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to…

— John D'Agata

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation…

— Donald Barthelme

“[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as…

— Tiffany Madison

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give…

— Antonin Dvorak

“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well…

— Gauguin

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become…

— John Steinbeck

“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things…

— Richard Ford

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the…

— Marilyn Hacker

It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and…

— Paul Dirac

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society…

— Kim Hyesoon

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

— Mason Cooley

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

— Amy Joy

“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”

— Marisha Pessl

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

— E. B. White

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

— Peter Bichsel

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

— Carl Sandburg

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

— Bill Hicks

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

— Honore de Balzac

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

— Philip Sington

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey