Art of life Quote by Harold Bloom

“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It is not…

— Harold Bloom

“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

“These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one…

— Virginia Woolf

“literature was merely a self-indulgence, a defrosting of the past.”

— Anonymous

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

— Ellen Glasgow

“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of…

— Matthew Quick

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

— Sam Tanenhaus

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

— Eric Allin Cornell

“Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.”

— Saul Bellow

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome