Great Literature Quotes

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

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

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

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.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

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

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

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

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.