Literature Quotes · Page 65

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

— Nick Johnson

“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?”

— The Prolific Penman

“My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…”

— Subhajit Ganguly

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

— Matthew Specktor

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

— Andrew Wylie

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the…

— Edith Hamilton

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like…

— Alan Palomo

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and…

— Robert Greene

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh…

— Stan Sakai

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion;…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a…

— Elif Batuman

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music,…

— Lyman Abbott

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard…

— William O. Douglas

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take…

— William James

“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or…

— Eric Bentley

“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,…

— Rick Gekoski

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about…

— Ben Gibbard

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow…

— John Lancaster Spalding

To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they…

— David Shields

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

— Derrick Jensen

“That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

— Daphne Kalotay

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

— Teju Cole

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

— Anonymous

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

— Tristan Tzara

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

— Rebecca West