Literature Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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

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

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

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

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.