Best Literature Quotes
2174 Literature quotes by 1284 unique authors
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
— Phillips Brooks
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
— Rita Mae Brown
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer…
— Steven Brust
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a…
— James Buchan
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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to…
— Sophia Bush
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
— Samuel Butler
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
— Samuel Butler
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
— A. S. Byatt
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made…
— Nicolas Cage
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
— Italo Calvino
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All literature is gossip.
— Truman Capote
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
— Thomas Carlyle
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
— John le Carre
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That…
— John le Carre
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary…
— Michael N. Castle
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
— Anton Chekhov
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
— Jean Cocteau
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity…
— Jean Cocteau
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
— Martin Amis
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There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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