Literature Quotes
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
Words are the only things that last for ever.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
