Literature Quotes · Page 54

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

— Carl Sandburg

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

— Honore de Balzac

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

— Bill Hicks

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well…

— Julian Barnes

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was…

— Khaled Hosseini

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is…

— T.C. Boyle

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so…

— Gertrude Stein

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I…

— Ford Madox Ford

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place…

— Italo Calvino

Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy…

— John Piper

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,…

— Ella Baker

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the…

— Benjamin R. Smith

Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only…

— Tom Stoppard

There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own…

— Eleanor Brown

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to…

— Frederick Buechner

“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

— Philip Sington

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

— Marcus Aurelius

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

— Jerome Bruner

Dryden's literature helps us to the study of the human nature.

— RMKATTA

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

— David Eddings

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

— Elif Batuman

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

— Agatha Christie

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

— Nicholas Kristof

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing…

— Laura Marling