Literature Quotes · Page 67

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”

— Anne Garréta

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books.…

— Jay Asher

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years…

— Azar Nafisi

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think…

— Maria Edgeworth

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

— Laurence Sterne

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our…

— Martin Bashir

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

“In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his…

— Jules Verne

Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not…

— George Steiner

“With the rum bottle empty, Marsh had moved on to the Guinness in the kitchen cupboard. After a bottle and a half,…

— Mark Ellis

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”…

— Jane Austen

To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to…

— Charlotte Mason

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is…

— Amos Oz

“I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people,…

— Kristie LeVangie

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is…

— Ambrose Bierce

I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,…

— Philip Roth

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

— Angie Thomas

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

— Angela Lambert

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

— Mark Twain

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

— Anonymous

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

— Frederick Crews

Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

— Anonymous

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.

— Heather Mac Donald

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

— Charles Dickens

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

— Saswata Chatterjee

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr