Literature Quotes

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Painting taught literature to describe.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Literature is eavesdropping.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.