Books Quote by Peter Handke Download Open image “I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.” — Peter Handke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hate Like Literature Opinions
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Opinions are opinions. I don't mind being a part of one, negative or positive. — Mya Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke 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
