Literature Quotes · Page 56

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

— Oprah Winfrey

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

— Jean Rostand

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

— Peter Medawar

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

— John Gregory Dunne

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than…

— Dejan Stojanovic

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers.…

— Ian Mcewan

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”

— Dermot Davis

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my…

— Donald Miller

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.…

— Denise Mina

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that…

— Wendy Lesser

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works…

— Ben Okri

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants…

— John Cusack

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night…

— Pat Conroy

Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with…

— Luchino Visconti

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from…

— Carolyn Wells

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.…

— Martin Gardner

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…

— Muriel Barbery

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

— Vera Nazarian

“Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and dehydrating!”

— Baret Magarian

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

“Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.”

— Aldous Huxley

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

— Kevin Kelly

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

— Doris Lessing

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

— Doris Lessing

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...”

— Léon Bloy