Literature Quotes

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Literature usually begets literature.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

That complete statement which is literature.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.