Literature Quotes · Page 41

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

— Honore de Balzac

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

— Colin Jost

“There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's…

— Tom Hanks

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the…

— Brent Weeks

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of…

— Elie Wiesel

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and…

— C. S. Lewis

My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women…

— Caroline Lucas

“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out…

— Roald Dahl

“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world…

— G.K. Chesterton

Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the…

— Horace Mann

German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being…

— Susie Dent

James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,…

— Raymond Chandler

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read…

— Gabe Polsky

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.…

— Lev Grossman

“Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him…

— George MacDonald Fraser

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

— Albert Bandura

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

— Herta Muller

“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”

— Krystal McLean

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

— Nel Noddings

“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

— Roberto Bolano

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

— Herta Muller

“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.”

— Brian Herbert

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

— Tom Spanbauer

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

— Sherman Alexie

I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science.

— Liu Cixin

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

— Carolyn Wells

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

— Anthony Burgess