Literature Quotes

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

While there's life, there's fear.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.