Literature Quotes · Page 30

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

— Aristotle

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

— Donald Barthelme

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

— Aldous Huxley

I never find it exciting to go anywhere, you get much more true information from literature than from travelling.

— Richey Edwards

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

— Tom Wolfe

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

“It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.”

— Stephen Crane

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the…

— C. V. Wedgwood

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about…

— Jacques Audiard

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

— Natalie Goldberg

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the…

— George Washington

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly…

— Sherman Alexie

“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value…

— Lytton Strachey

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.…

— Julia Quinn

I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“It hadn’t always been this way, that’s a cliché, but it is a cliché for a reason. It’s not like anyone starts…

— David Louden

Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such…

— Kyle Minor

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists…

— Rebecca Solnit

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable…

— Anonymous

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was…

— Tibor Fischer

Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

— Angela Carter

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

— Howard Nemerov

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

— Wallace Stevens

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself”

— Anonymous

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

— Cassandra Clare

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

— Stef Penney

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

— George Orwell

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

— Sjon

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

— Anne Stevenson