Literature Quotes · Page 32

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

— Samuel Alito

“Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.”

— Prex J.D.V. Ybasco

“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.”

— Amos Oz

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

— Francois Duvalier

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature…

— John Drane

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter…

— Amos Oz

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

— Gavin Esler

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired…

— Christopher Dawson

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to…

— Harper Lee

"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is…

— Joshua L. Liebman

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who…

— Patrick Modiano

“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

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…

— Elif Batuman

“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had…

— Andrew Lang

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past,…

— Scott Herring

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in…

— Tillie Olsen

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable…

— Anonymous

“But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I…

— John C. Wright

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

— Joyce Carol Oates

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

— Christian Bauman

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

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

— Francis Quarles

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos