Literature Quotes · Page 43

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

— Jamaica Kincaid

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

— Christopher Bollen

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

— Jessa Crispin

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

— Jean Cocteau

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

“The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.”

— Caroline George

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

— Julia Glass

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.…

— Ray Bradbury

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of…

— Colum McCann

“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author…

— Howard Jacobson

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

— John Steinbeck

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book…

— A. S. Byatt

“Literature is not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a…

— Murong Xuecun

There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?…

— Haroon Moghul

One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no…

— H. L. Mencken

“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?…

— Ray Bradbury

Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader…

— Stephanie Strickland

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if…

— Eric Bogosian

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on…

— Caterina Fake

“Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find…

— Christopher Hitchens

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

— Edith Hamilton

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

— Julio Cortazar

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

— Agnes Repplier

“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.”

— Patience Johnson

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

— Philip Roth

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

— Stephen Fry

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

— Gao Xingjian

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

— Elbert Hubbard

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“One had, in any case, a bag full of fruits that resemble stars, picked by the handful in the luminous forest ...”

— Léon Bloy

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

— Doris Lessing

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

— James Herbert

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue