Literature Quotes · Page 58

“En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

— Sei Shonagon

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

— Raymond Carver

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

— Ben Dolnick

“Good things don’t come easy and anything free you have got to ponder the tiny literature under the big words.”

— Harken Headers

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

— Erin McCarthy

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

— Tom Wolfe

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world…

— David Amram

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would…

— Madame de Stael

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of…

— William Kennedy

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…

— Alistair Cooke

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the…

— John Dos Passos

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene…

— Mark Twain

“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other…

— Frank Gehry

The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people…

— Laura Antoniou

I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve…

— Jon Scieszka

The starting point for English work must be the ability to handle effectively their own experience. Oral work, written work and the…

— Michael Rosen

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating…

— Thomas Sowell

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a…

— James Buchan

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

— Doris Lessing

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at…

— John Ashbery

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

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

— Eleanor Catton

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

— Andrew Bird

When true legends unite ,And for a common cause they fight .Then its them- the Gods , who must fear their might

— Kevin Knight

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

— Margaret Mitchell

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

— Edwin Muir

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

— Colum McCann

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

— Lafcadio Hearn

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

— Jean Racine

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

— Max Pam

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

— Kenneth Oppel

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

— Raymond Chandler