Literature Quotes · Page 51

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

— Barbet Schroeder

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

— Dawn Angelique

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

— William Shakespeare

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?”

— Kamand Kojouri

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen…

— Jacob Weisberg

“It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image. (The mason Mutsose, in…

— Steven William Lawrie

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

— Terence McKenna

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous

“So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to…

— Gustave Flaubert

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the…

— Amy Harmon

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -…

— Anonymous

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of…

— Nicholas Royle

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…

— Edith Wharton

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before…

— Rick Riordan

“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will…

— Steven Brust

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I…

— Katherine Paterson

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…

— Gene Wolfe

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature,…

— Steven Pinker

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

— Roland Barthes

“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.”

— Akash Lakhotia

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the…

— Oscar Wilde

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

— Monique Wittig

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

— Margaret Atwood

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”

— Osamu Dazai

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

— Heath White

“All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.”

— Viken Berberian

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag