Literature Quotes

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Comics are a gateway into literature.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Drama - what literature does at night.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

History takes time. History makes memory.