Literature Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it!
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.
One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult but to the adult in the child.
There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.
Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.
this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on
People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.
There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.
Thoughts are meant to be words and words are meant to be written and what is written becomes a figment of the literature
Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.
it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature.
Only when the flower vase will be itself in bloom, only then we got the real wonder of poetry
The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It’s not where we live, but life itself.
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.
Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.
The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.
Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect, thoughts, imagination, creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.
