Literature Quotes

To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

There are no winners in real games.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

All those big words produce disgust today.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

Stick to the honesty and never leave it!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.