Books Quote by Mo Yan Download Open image “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.” — Mo Yan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Incapable Talking Liquor Liquor Incapable Literature People People Strangers Stranger Strangers Liquor Talking Talking Literature
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order… — Keir Graff Copy Share Image
Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every… — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“A stable, peaceful society is the training ground for humanity, just as caged animals, removed from the violent unpredictability of the wild, are influenced… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“There are people who walk mules and people walk horses, but I never thought there were people who walk cops.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“run, run, you can’t get away, the monk can run but the temple will never get away!” — Mo Yan 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
