Literature Quotes
You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.
In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.
Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.
Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -
Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.
Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.
Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.
Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.
Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
The topography of literature, the fact in fiction, is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.
Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.
We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?
Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.
the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string
Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
I looked into the literature on this, " said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful.""There's a literature about this?""You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.
All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.
You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.
If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.