Literature Quotes
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour, and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
