Literature Quotes

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!