Literature Quotes · Page 63

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

— Tony Hoagland

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

— Herman Wouk

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

— William Carlos Williams

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

— Adam Johnson

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of…

— Andre Dubus

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for…

— Kate Zambreno

“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

“Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.”

— Julian Barnes

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

— Danny Glover

“Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience? Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that…

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed…

— David Nicholls

The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

As a rule, the man who first thinks of a new idea is so much ahead of his time that everyone thinks…

— Ash Sweeney

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country…

— Sinclair Lewis

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated…

— Douglas Preston

“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change…

— William Carlos Williams

They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to…

— Robert Hass

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more…

— Jenny Zhang

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature...

— Stanton Peele

“What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')”

— Paul Murray Kendall

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

— Francis Quarles

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

— Anonymous

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

— Tessa Jowell

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

— Jessica Savitch

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

— Debbie Allen

“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.”

— Patience Johnson

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

“People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.”

— Subhan Zein

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

— Joanna Scott

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

— Roxane Gay

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald