Literature Quotes · Page 47

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

— Dejan Stojanovic

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

— Douglas Gresham

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

— Rex Murphy

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

— Virginia Woolf

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of…

— Betty Smith

“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and…

— Geoffrey Reiter

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse…

— Helen Keller

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from…

— Patrick White

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

— Helen Keller

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)…

— Harold Brodkey

A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a…

— Roger Scruton

“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often…

— Dana Gioia

“Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer? The next morning she led me to the coat closet,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or…

— Eric Bentley

“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,…

— Rick Gekoski

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take…

— William James

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

— Orhan Pamuk

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

“He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

— Shimon Peres

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

— Samuel Beckett

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

— Walter Gilbert

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

— Amitava Kumar

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

— Edwin Louis Cole

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader…

— Marcus Garvey

“I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”

— Holly Black

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

— Lyn Hejinian