As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better. — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.” — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie. — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm often drawn to darker subjects. There's a lot of awful stuff in literature - and in life. Every day I read… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“I get most of my inspiration from two places: my own life, and reading. I read widely—in my genre (romance), and in… — Eloisa James 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
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“Had Stella been named anything else, and/or had we lived in any other city besides New Orleans, my desperate call would have… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
