Literature Quotes · Page 55

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

— Anonymous

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

— Lights

“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?”

— Rick Yancey

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

— Henry Miller

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

— Mark Helprin

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a…

— Anne Michaels

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond…

— Francine Prose

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of…

— Jenna Bush

It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it…

— Adam Silvera

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate…

— Philip Kitcher

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the…

— Oscar Wilde

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.…

— Samuel Beckett

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object…

— Zbigniew Herbert

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,…

— Florence King

Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence…

— David Schneider

As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or…

— June Jordan

“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and…

— Robert Musil

We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark…

— Russell Baker

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to…

— Erin Duffy

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

— Edwin Muir

“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes…

— Yann Martel

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

— George Ade

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

— Jane Austen

“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

— Mary McCarthy

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

— Dario Fo

“Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.”

— Nora Roberts

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

— Charles Baudelaire

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

— Elsa Maxwell

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

— Cyril Connolly

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

— Rita Mae Brown

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe