Literature Quotes · Page 41

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

— Chris Abani

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

— Maya Angelou

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.”

— John R. Lindensmith

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

— Lynne Tillman

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

— Timothy Findley

“Whenever you are presented with a problem, the first thing you should do is conduct a literature survey.”

— USMC (Ret Lt Gen Paul K. Van Riper

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is…

— John Hurt

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

— Guenter Lewy

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be…

— Sjon

I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only…

— Enda Kenny

“With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my…

— David Louden

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that…

— Brian Boyd

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something…

— Sarah Jeong

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism…

— George Steiner

“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is…

— George Orwell

The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a…

— Carolina Herrera

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary…

— Per Petterson

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to…

— Mark Twain

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

— Marcel Proust

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

— Thomas Keneally

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

— Colum McCann

I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature.

— Andy Muschietti

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

— Elbert Hubbard

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

— George Eliot

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

— Margaret Mitchell

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

— Northrop Frye

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

— John Banville