Books Quote by Ravi Shankar

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

— Jules Renard

I like literature, not opinions. I hate opinions.

— Peter Handke

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature?…

— Julian Barnes

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer…

— Marina Warner

“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and…

— Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it…

— Gabe Polsky

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting…

— Joanne Harris

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness…

— Salman Rushdie

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the power to…

— Anonymous

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm…

— Robert Greene

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation…

— Gregory Benford

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the stuff of…

— Julian Barnes