Literature Quotes · Page 40

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

— Francis Quarles

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

— Christian Bauman

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the…

— Washington Irving

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that…

— Isabel Allende

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these…

— Harold Bloom

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part…

— Grace Paley

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of…

— Jonathan Lethem

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not…

— Mario

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or…

— Tom Cain

“It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city…

— Roman Payne

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the…

— Northrop Frye

The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic…

— John Fowles

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation…

— Rachel Nichols

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists…

— Carlos Fuentes

“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it…

— Nick Hornby (Author

“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for…

— Henry Seidel Canby

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

— Joyce Carol Oates

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

— Amos Oz

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

— Sei Shonagon

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

— Henry James