Literature Quotes · Page 49

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

— Mark Twain

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

— Angela Lambert

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

— Anonymous

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

— Angie Thomas

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from…

— Harper Lee

“Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered”

— Virginia Woolf

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away…

— Austin O'Malley

They call us romantics, weak, stupid, sentimental idealists, perhaps because we have some faith in the good which exists even in our…

— Ash Sweeney

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like…

— Alan Palomo

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the…

— Edith Hamilton

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

“With the rum bottle empty, Marsh had moved on to the Guinness in the kitchen cupboard. After a bottle and a half,…

— Mark Ellis

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”…

— Jane Austen

“I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people,…

— Kristie LeVangie

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is…

— Amos Oz

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot…

— Sam Hamill

It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make…

— Joseph Parker

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…

— James Cameron

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

— D. H. Lawrence

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

— Charles Dickens

American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.

— Heather Mac Donald

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

— Saswata Chatterjee

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

— D. H. Lawrence

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

— Wendy Lesser

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

— Simone de Beauvoir