Literature Quotes · Page 37

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

— Ada Leverson

“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider”

— Mala Naidoo

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

— Jasper Fforde

“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

— Gregory David Roberts

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

— Eric Hoffer

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

— Sherman Alexie

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of…

— David Bennun

“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of…

— Rafael Sabatini

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it.…

— Samuel Kermis

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps…

— Kathryn Lasky

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at…

— Alan Cumming

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

— Lyn Hejinian

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the…

— Jonathan Miller

“All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result…

— Marcel Proust

I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want…

— Elena Poniatowska

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So…

— Paul Fussell

There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a…

— Martin Shubik

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages…

— Maurice Blanchot

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing…

— Dorothy Allison

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The…

— Elif Batuman

Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage,…

— Kenneth Tynan

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

— Charles Horton Cooley

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

— Orhan Pamuk

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

— Anonymous

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

— Mikhail Bakhtin

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

— Evan Esar

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

— Anita Brookner

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

— Nicole Krauss

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

— Thomas Bowdler

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

— William Butler Yeats

“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!”

— Lev Grossman