Literature Quotes

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.