Literature Quotes

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.