Literature Quotes · Page 58

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ”

— Jack Kerouac

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause…

— Franz Grillparzer

“That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.”

— Sophie Divry

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to…

— John Steinbeck

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

— Brad Holland

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,…

— Catherine Camus

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was…

— Brad Pitt

There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused…

— Richard Tol

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.…

— Mira Nair

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time…

— Lev Grossman

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together…

— Virginia Woolf

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency…

— Jane Addams

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these…

— Northrop Frye

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable…

— Anton Chekhov

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or…

— Jorge Luis Borges

That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“Ili mu se sve to pričinjavalo od viška literature i manjka života?”

— Goran Petrović

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

— Samuel L. Jackson

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

— Virginia Woolf

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

— Doris Lessing

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into…

— Lawrence Durrell

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

— Cyril Connolly

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

— Victoria Wood

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

— Gao Xingjian

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Alfred de Vigny

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin