Literature Quotes

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.