Literature Quotes · Page 53

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

— Richard Ford

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

— Lafcadio Hearn

“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”

— Ray Bradbury

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

— Honore de Balzac

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

— Samuel Johnson

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

— Mason Cooley

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

— Kenneth Oppel

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

— H. L. Mencken

Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...

— Lars Ulrich

But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music,…

— David Amram

Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.…

— David Bennun

“It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down…

— Brenda Shaughnessy

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of…

— Gwee Li Sui

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic…

— Walter Hill

A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to…

— Russell Freedman

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has…

— Katie Kitamura

All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is…

— Mark McMorris

“...the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of…

— Peter Straub (Author

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes…

— Shia LaBeouf

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own…

— Walter Moers

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there…

— Meryl Streep

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

— Robert Dessaix

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

— Alan Bennett

“Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun in a drop of water. Lev Vygotsky--Thought and Language”

— Vygotsky

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

— A. S. Byatt

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.”

— Daniel Lambert

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

— Hayley Atwell

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

— Christopher Hitchens

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

— Kam Williams

“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

— Margaret Atwood

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

— Vladimir Nabokov