Literature Quotes

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.

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.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Prosperity is full of friends.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

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.

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

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.