Literature Quotes
{...} It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).
Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes.
The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.
He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.
Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.
Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind
So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.
Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other
The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.
Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.
People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly
Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.
We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.
Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.
We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.
Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?
But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.
We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn’t matter just as much, " Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)
…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.
Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.
Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds.How? Nobody knows.Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...
Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.
Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.
I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.
Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…
Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
Little mouse, " a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Be careful, " Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.