Literature Quotes · Page 45

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

— Anonymous

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

— Jessica Savitch

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”

— Aldous Huxley

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

— Stephen Greenblatt

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a…

— Natalie Portman

“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to…

— Graham Greene

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a…

— Ken Liu

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having…

— William James

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world…

— David Amram

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are…

— Mark Slouka

The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly…

— Philip Kitcher

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the…

— Chad Harbach

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would…

— Barbara Tuchman

Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to…

— Tillie Olsen

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't…

— Jay Asher

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You…

— James Callis

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live…

— Alfred de Vigny

Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a…

— Alexander Theroux

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

— Peter J. Daniels

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

— Alistair MacLeod

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at…

— John Ashbery

“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.”

— Anonymous

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

— John Lahr

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

— Henry David Thoreau

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

— Evelyn Waugh

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

— Northrop Frye

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

— Anton Chekhov