Literature Quotes

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

To create something you must be something.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

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.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.