Literature Quotes · Page 60

In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

— Boris Pasternak

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

— Carlos Fuentes

Life is not a essay or speech instead its a Literature, where every end has a bew beginning.

— Author Lekha

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

— Horace

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the…

— Philip Roth

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially…

— Shawn Johnson

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires…

— John Fowles

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems…

— John Dewey

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do…

— David Brooks

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature…

— Rebecca West

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs…

— Eileen Myles

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative…

— Karan Mahajan

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most…

— Dostoevsky

Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and…

— G. K. Chesterton

“Though I have lived most of my life with educationalists, I have little interest in educa¬ tion. I dislike schools, both for…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best…

— Thomas Friedman

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

— Peter Medawar

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

— John Gregory Dunne

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

— Jean Rostand

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

— Oprah Winfrey

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”

— Susan Meissner

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”

— Virginia Woolf

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

— Ray Bradbury

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.”

— Aldous Huxley