Literature Quotes · Page 66

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

— Azar Nafisi

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

— Jane Levy

To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers…

— Liao Yiwu

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation,…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've…

— Nick Hornby

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of…

— Paulo Freire

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for…

— Wole Soyinka

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came…

— Roman Payne

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science…

— Eric Hoffer

“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to…

— Henry Miller

“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't…

— Thomas C. Foster

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed…

— Marilynne Robinson

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— Salman Rushdie

The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected…

— Anonymous

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

— William James

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

— Lytton Strachey

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

— Tessa Jowell

“These fragments, these shivers of my heart Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute”

— Zubair Ahsan

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

— Werner Herzog

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

— Terry Eagleton

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

— Simone de Beauvoir

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

— D. H. Lawrence

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

— Wendy Lesser

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

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

— Jorge Luis Borges