Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
...If a thing isn't worth saying twice, it probably wasn't worth saying once... — Peter Crossley Copy Share Image
“Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.” — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. — Marek Hlasko Copy Share Image
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
