Literature Quotes · Page 45

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

— William James

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

— Tessa Jowell

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

— Lytton Strachey

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation,…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers…

— Liao Yiwu

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion;…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a…

— Elif Batuman

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for…

— Wole Soyinka

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of…

— Paulo Freire

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books.…

— Jay Asher

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me…

— Werner Herzog

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.…

— Akira Kurosawa

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…

— Lionel Trilling

“Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this…

— Graham Swift

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in…

— William James

“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why…

— Arti Honrao

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came…

— Roman Payne

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

“My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…”

— Subhajit Ganguly

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

— Nick Johnson

“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”

— The Prolific Penman

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

— Matthew Specktor

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

— Derrick Jensen