Quotes about Literature

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Literature is the expression of society.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Where would fashion be without literature?

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

I really came to literature through poetry.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

literature is the record of our discontent.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

That complete statement which is literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

literature is the last banquet between minds.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

There is no such thing as children's literature.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I never really separated painting and literature.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

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

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen ...

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature"¦literature should be left to essayists.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

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

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

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

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

That is what literature offers"”a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word,

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

American Literature (75 quotes)

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Votes: 6 Wilbur Smith

Appreciating literature (22 quotes)

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. Votes: 1 Thomas Bulfinch

Art of literature (115 quotes)

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. Votes: 4 Robert Louis Stevenson

Australian literature (24 quotes)

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff. Votes: 1 Catherine Jinks

Bad literature (44 quotes)

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. Votes: 3 Andre Gide

Beauty from literature (29 quotes)

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. Votes: 1 Philip Roth

Beauty in literature (59 quotes)

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson

Best Literature (57 quotes)

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. Votes: 3 Romain Gary

Black literature (30 quotes)

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor. Votes: 3 Kerry James Marshall

British literature (20 quotes)

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. Votes: 1 David Eagleman

Canadian literature (21 quotes)

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. Votes: 1 George Woodcock

Change literature (45 quotes)

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. Votes: 1 Andrzej Wajda

Children s literature (72 quotes)

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt

Children's literature (85 quotes)

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. Votes: 5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Childrens literature (42 quotes)

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. Votes: 2 Eleanor Catton

Classic literature (31 quotes)

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. Votes: 6 David Amram

Classical Literature (49 quotes)

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women. Votes: 3 Gloria Steinem

Comparative literature (47 quotes)

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 the decision to speak with distinction. Votes: 6 Nicolas Cage

Contemporary literature (42 quotes)

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 literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. Votes: 6 Michael N. Castle

Death literature (36 quotes)

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Votes: 1 Isaac Bashevis Singer

Discussing literature (24 quotes)

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue. Votes: 1 Mark Z. Danielewski

Dreams literature (33 quotes)

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Votes: 1 Antonio Tabucchi

Dystopian literature (34 quotes)

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. Votes: 3 Lois Lowry

Early american literature (17 quotes)

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point. Votes: 1 Daniel Suarez

Emotion in literature (19 quotes)

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family. Votes: 1 Siri Hustvedt

English language and literature (12 quotes)

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. Votes: 1 Twyla Tharp

English Literature (75 quotes)

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. Votes: 4 Maggie Gyllenhaal

Enjoying literature (31 quotes)

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Votes: 1 Joseph Heller

Ethnic literature (24 quotes)

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.' Votes: 1 Terry Eagleton

Family literature (31 quotes)

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. Votes: 1 Tayari Jones

Fantasy literature (37 quotes)

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again. Votes: 3 Rick Riordan

Feminist literature (27 quotes)

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around. Votes: 3 Beth Ditto

Fiction literature (82 quotes)

There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. Votes: 4 John Scalzi

Film and literature (46 quotes)

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature. Votes: 3 Kenneth Oppel

Folk literature (23 quotes)

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Votes: 1 Mo Yan

Food in literature (18 quotes)

I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it. Votes: 3 Rachel Nichols

French Literature (31 quotes)

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Votes: 2 Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Friendship literature (20 quotes)

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future. Votes: 1 Apollonius of Tyana

Good literature (85 quotes)

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable. Votes: 5 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Gothic literature (32 quotes)

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. Votes: 1 Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Great Literature (126 quotes)

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. Votes: 4 E. M. Forster

Happiness literature (14 quotes)

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. Votes: 1 Thomas Bulfinch

Historical literature (17 quotes)

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. Votes: 1 Philippa Gregory

History and literature (70 quotes)

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Votes: 5 Carlos Fuentes

History in literature (80 quotes)

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. Votes: 2 Clifford Geertz

Home from literature (20 quotes)

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. Votes: 3 Zadie Smith

Horror literature (32 quotes)

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. Votes: 1 Whitley Strieber

Humor in literature (12 quotes)

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Votes: 3 Alfred North Whitehead

Imagination in literature (21 quotes)

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination. Votes: 3 Vikas Swarup

Importance of english literature (11 quotes)

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Votes: 0 Philip Pullman

Importance of literature (9 quotes)

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. Votes: 1 Amish Tripathi

Indian literature (16 quotes)

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God. Votes: 2 Amish Tripathi

Inspiring literature (16 quotes)

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. Votes: 1 Christian Louboutin

Interpretation of literature (21 quotes)

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. Votes: 1 Melissa Bank

Irish literature (23 quotes)

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Votes: 1 Chris Abani

Islamic literature (16 quotes)

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. Votes: 2 Richard Dawkins

Japanese literature (20 quotes)

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. Votes: 1 Utada Hikaru

Korean literature (23 quotes)

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. Votes: 1 Adam Johnson

Language and literature (57 quotes)

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. Votes: 4 Robert Fitzgerald

Learning literature (30 quotes)

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. Votes: 1 Doris Lessing

Literature and art (102 quotes)

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. Votes: 4 Benjamin N. Cardozo

Literature and books (60 quotes)

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. Votes: 3 Bill Hicks

Literature and education (27 quotes)

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. Votes: 3 Pratibha Patil

Literature and emotion (29 quotes)

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Votes: 1 Isaac Bashevis Singer

Literature and film (31 quotes)

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Votes: 3 David Small

Literature and god (18 quotes)

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 the decision to speak with distinction. Votes: 1 Nicolas Cage

Literature and humanity (16 quotes)

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. Votes: 1 P. T. Barnum

Literature and imagination (21 quotes)

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. Votes: 1 Andrew Bird

Literature and language (53 quotes)

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. Votes: 4 Harrison Salisbury

Literature and life (134 quotes)

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Votes: 4 Ellen Glasgow

Literature and meaning (14 quotes)

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. Votes: 1 Nikolai Berdyaev

Literature and movies (31 quotes)

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. Votes: 3 John Leo

Literature and music (61 quotes)

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. Votes: 3 Stephan Jenkins

Literature and poetry (57 quotes)

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Votes: 3 Cassandra Clare

Literature and politics (35 quotes)

History without politics descends to mere Literature. Votes: 2 John Robert Seeley

Literature and reality (29 quotes)

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Votes: 1 Richard Dawkins

Literature and science (71 quotes)

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions. Votes: 4 David Blaine

Literature and the world (78 quotes)

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Votes: 3 Alexandra Fuller

Literature and theatre (15 quotes)

Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes. Votes: 3 Richard Hornby

Literature and time (59 quotes)

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad. Votes: 2 Joshua Cohen

Literature and truth (41 quotes)

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. Votes: 1 F. Sionil Jose

Literature by authors (28 quotes)

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' Votes: 1 James Wolcott

Literature by writers (20 quotes)

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. Votes: 2 Kathy Acker

Literature characters (33 quotes)

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period. Votes: 2 Josh Hutcherson

Literature class (31 quotes)

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. Votes: 3 Ellen Ochoa

Literature criticism (21 quotes)

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. Votes: 1 John Updike

Literature english (50 quotes)

My master's degree was in English literature. Votes: 2 Sylvia Browne

Literature from authors (22 quotes)

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. Votes: 1 Robert Benchley

Literature history (61 quotes)

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Votes: 2 Carlos Fuentes

Literature importance (14 quotes)

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. Votes: 1 Amish Tripathi

Literature influence (31 quotes)

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. Votes: 2 Arthur Phillips

Literature of science (72 quotes)

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Votes: 3 Rachel Carson

Literature reading (45 quotes)

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Votes: 2 Aidan Chambers

Literature reflecting life (14 quotes)

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. Votes: 3 Karen Thompson Walker

Literature review (23 quotes)

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature. Votes: 1 Claire Tomalin

Literature shakespeare (43 quotes)

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Votes: 1 Anne Stevenson

Literature society (25 quotes)

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. Votes: 1 Cao Yu

Literature students (35 quotes)

Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.' Votes: 2 John Fusco

Literature symbolism (9 quotes)

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart. Votes: 1 Carrie Coon

Literature teachers (26 quotes)

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 study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid. Votes: 3 Sophia Bush

Literature themes (19 quotes)

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. Votes: 1 Justin Cronin

Literature writing (61 quotes)

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Votes: 1 Stieg Larsson

Love literature (74 quotes)

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema. Votes: 4 Julia Leigh

Love of literature (94 quotes)

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. Votes: 4 Jonathan Lethem

Marriage literature (10 quotes)

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage. Votes: 1 Will Self

Meaning of literature (26 quotes)

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. Votes: 3 Robert Dessaix

Medieval literature (9 quotes)

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. Votes: 1 Terry Pratchett

Modern literature (56 quotes)

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. Votes: 4 Harold Pinter

Mood in literature (19 quotes)

The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life. Votes: 1 John Drane

Mothers literature (29 quotes)

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Votes: 2 Wilbur Smith

Multicultural literature (13 quotes)

Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too. Votes: 3 Matt de la Pena

Non fiction literature (11 quotes)

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. Votes: 1 Ian Mcewan

Old literature (44 quotes)

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another. Votes: 3 Terence McKenna

Philosophy and literature (44 quotes)

I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest. Votes: 3 Nouriel Roubini

Philosophy literature (47 quotes)

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. Votes: 1 Morris Raphael Cohen

Poetry and literature (59 quotes)

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. Votes: 3 Helen Mirren

Popular Literature (32 quotes)

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads. Votes: 2 Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power of literature (45 quotes)

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. Votes: 3 Ma Jian

Purpose of literature (27 quotes)

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. Votes: 4 Herman Melville

Quality literature (29 quotes)

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits. Votes: 1 Katherine Paterson

Reading good literature (4 quotes)

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. Votes: 3 Stephen Covey

Reading literature (63 quotes)

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. Votes: 4 Richard Ford

Religion and literature (36 quotes)

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam. Votes: 4 Basmah bint Saud

Renaissance literature (13 quotes)

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again. Votes: 1 Rick Riordan

Review of literature (44 quotes)

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism. Votes: 1 Cynthia Ozick

Russian literature (38 quotes)

I read Russian literature a lot. Votes: 3 Mikhail Baryshnikov

Scandinavian literature (27 quotes)

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Votes: 1 Chris Abani

Science and literature (75 quotes)

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Votes: 4 Milton Friedman

Southern literature (10 quotes)

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature. Votes: 1 Roy Blount, Jr.

Soviet literature (7 quotes)

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. Votes: 1 Joshua Cohen

Spanish literature (28 quotes)

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. Votes: 1 Jose Bergamin

Study of literature (49 quotes)

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. Votes: 4 John Updike

Studying english literature (25 quotes)

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. Votes: 2 Lafcadio Hearn

Symbolism in literature (18 quotes)

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart. Votes: 1 Carrie Coon

Teaching literature (28 quotes)

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature. Votes: 3 Chang-Rae Lee

Traditional literature (18 quotes)

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. Votes: 3 Marjane Satrapi

Tragic literature (18 quotes)

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Votes: 1 Nancy Pearcey

Travel literature (15 quotes)

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking. Votes: 3 Francis Fukuyama

Understanding literature (19 quotes)

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. Votes: 1 Avi Arad

Universal literature (23 quotes)

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. Votes: 3 Ismail Kadare

Value of literature (31 quotes)

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell. Votes: 3 Colum McCann

Victorian literature (20 quotes)

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century. Votes: 2 Eleanor Catton

Villains in literature (14 quotes)

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. Votes: 1 Alex Tabarrok

Violence in literature (16 quotes)

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. Votes: 2 Paul Bloom

Voice in literature (21 quotes)

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens. Votes: 1 Dylan Moran

War literature (26 quotes)

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything. Votes: 3 Phil Klay

What literature is (84 quotes)

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. Votes: 3 Rita Dove

Women's literature (18 quotes)

In literature, older women are not often given center stage. Votes: 1 Kate Christensen

World literature (76 quotes)

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Votes: 4 Mo Yan

Ya literature (26 quotes)

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me. Votes: 1 Lauren DeStefano

Young adult literature (36 quotes)

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. Votes: 3 Sherman Alexie