The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When you don't have, or feel that you don't have, an extra moment to read philosophy, history, or science, when great literature,… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
![“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In…” quote by J.M.G. Le Clézio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bcf/j-m-g-le-cl-zio-24177_books_m-ay-not-literature-and-in-particular-fi_2246497.jpg)
