Literature Quotes · Page 29

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

— Rex Murphy

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

— Yehuda Amichai

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

— John Henry Newman

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

— Dejan Stojanovic

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

— Douglas Gresham

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

— Mark Fisher

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

— Edna Longley

“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”

— John Bennardo

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men…

— M. Carey Thomas

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting…

— Rick Owens

The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal…

— RaMell Ross

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic…

— George Eliot

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward…

— Joshua Reynolds

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in…

— Wole Soyinka

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is…

— Mark Twain

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be…

— Junot Diaz

You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at…

— T.C. Boyle

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written…

— Ayn Rand

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity…

— Tristan Tzara

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

“A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

— Josh Hutcherson

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

— Georg Brandes

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

— Carol Bly

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

— Jordan Peterson

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

— David Lodge

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

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

— Andrew Bird