Literature Quotes · Page 40

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the…

— Richard Flanagan

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

— Ellen Glasgow

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

— Anton Chekhov

“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

— Gabrielle Zevin

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

— Toni Morrison

My heart love till now for sweared sight, for I never saw true beauty till this night.

— William Shakespeare

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over…

— Mary Gauthier

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does…

— Whitley Strieber

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the…

— R. L. Stine

“Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew…

— Matthew McBride

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women…

— Helen McCrory

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

— Thomas Bulfinch

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage,…

— Peter Glenville

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing…

— Paulo Freire

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the…

— John Franklin Bardin

With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended…

— Michelle Yeoh

“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or…

— Arti Honrao

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part…

— Patrick O'Brian

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”

— K. Ritz

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

— Frederick Douglass

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

— Henry Miller

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

— Miriam Margolyes

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

— Edith Wharton

“Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.

— Samuel Butler

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”

— Margot McCuaig

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

— P. T. Barnum

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

— Gretchen Rubin

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

— Richard Livingstone