Literature Quotes
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
