Literature Quotes · Page 51

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

— Horace

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's…

— John Gaddis

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

— Wendell Phillips

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

— Basmah bint Saud

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love…

— Dylan Moran

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity…

— Kim Gordon

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages…

— Paul Theroux

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .…

— Sarah Arthur

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as…

— Emilio G. Segre

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes…

— Amy Lowell

“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other…

— Pierre Bayard

“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if…

— Montesquieu

“All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from…

— Julio Cortázar

“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the…

— Herman Hesse

“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character…

— Nick Hornby

Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease…

— Lewis Mumford

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely…

— Charles Baudelaire

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and…

— Walter Kirn

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

— Mary Augusta Ward

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

— Northrop Frye

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

— Thomas Bernhard

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”

— Nick Hornby

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

— Henrik Ibsen

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

— Harvey Pekar

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

— Geoffrey Miller

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

— Alexander Smith

“Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.”

— Ahmed Mayouf

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

— Eleanor Catton

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

— Ben Okri