Books Quote by Andre Malraux Download Open image ““In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”” — Andre Malraux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonished Chosen Books Chosen Life Astonished Literature Literature Life Writer
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.” — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick up in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“The day may come when, contemplating a world given back to the primeval forst, a human survivor will have no means of even guessing… — André Malraux Copy Share Image
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
