Literature Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.