Literature Quotes · Page 42

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

— Thomas Huxley

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

— Jane Smiley

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

— Norman Mailer

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

— D. H. Lawrence

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

— George Gissing

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people…

— Clifford Geertz

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature…

— E. B. White

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I…

— Amitava Kumar

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;…

— Thomas de Quincey

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two…

— Camron Wright

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of…

— William Kennedy

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,…

— William Butler Yeats

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's…

— Gary Giddins

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There…

— Jane Austen

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw…

— David Chase

“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

— Oscar Wilde

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

— Isaac D'Israeli

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

— Adolf Hitler

“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.”

— David Rose

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

— Martin Amis

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

— Charlotte Bronte

“If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

— Whitley Strieber

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

“I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as…

— Santosh Kalwar

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

— John Morley

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

— Anonymous

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

— Alberto Manguel

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.”

— Anonymous

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann