Literature Quotes · Page 52

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

— George Meredith

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

— Ross Wetzsteon

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”

— Don DeLillo

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to…

— Italo Calvino

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in…

— Joseph Brodsky

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how…

— Azar Nafisi

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

— Lester Beall

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which…

— James A. Michener

It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I…

— Lynne Ramsay

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny…

— Nikki Grimes

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the…

— Franz Grillparzer

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in…

— Bent Larsen

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean…

— Ilona Andrews

I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it…

— Hale Appleman

“When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride…

— Michael Thomas Ford

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from…

— Chang-Rae Lee

When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because…

— Christopher Hitchens

In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of…

— James Kelman

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

— Alfred de Vigny

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

“There are actually undiscovered books in tiny bookstore nooks waiting to be discovered. Doesn’t that get you excited?”

— Todd B. Vick

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

— John Williams

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

— Wallace Stevens

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

— Anonymous

“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”

— Carlos Fuentes

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

— James Ponsoldt

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

— Vera Nazarian

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

— Sally Rooney

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

— Anonymous

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

— T. S. Eliot

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell