Literature Quotes

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

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

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

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

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.