Literature Quotes · Page 50

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

— Terry Eagleton

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

— Werner Herzog

“These fragments, these shivers of my heart Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute”

— Zubair Ahsan

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”

— Anne Garréta

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You…

— Mukunda Goswami

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and…

— Robert Greene

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh…

— Stan Sakai

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south…

— Ambrose Bierce

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

— Marc Jacobs

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should…

— Alistair MacLeod

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about…

— Noam Chomsky

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things…

— Mizuki Nomura

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His…

— Emily Dickinson

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of…

— Benjamin Haydon

“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Snad to bylo i tím, co všechno jsem slyšel od pana profesora, který se překonával v nadávání, žádný kočí nedovedl tak nadávat…

— Bohumil Hrabal

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is…

— Vivian Gornick

“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –…

— Peter Abbs

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his…

— Sam Abell

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In…

— George Packer

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

— Boris Pasternak

In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

— Nora Roberts

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the…

— V. S. Naipaul

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

— John Steinbeck

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

— Susan Howe

Life is not a essay or speech instead its a Literature, where every end has a bew beginning.

— Author Lekha