Quotes about literature
literature narrative argument
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Howard Nemerov
literature telling-stories modern
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
literature may pages
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
literature world spirit
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
literature clients dresses
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. George Bernard Shaw
literature fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is the very literature of change. Frederik Pohl
literature causes pacifist
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer
literature term representatives
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
literature body crosses
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
literature world delight
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
literature able willing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
literature speak
Writers speak stench.
literature moderns speak
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Lord Chesterfield
literature prosperity
Prosperity is full of friends. Euripides
literature young
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. Gilbert K. Chesterton
literature metaphor slang
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
literature insight good-literature
All good Literature rests primarily on insight. George Henry Lewes
literature problem subtlety
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. Mo Yan
literature bears pockets
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. Moliere
literature prose verses
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
literature theater please
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
literature helping
Literature helps us transcend ourselves. Mohsin Hamid
literature pinnacle austen
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. J. K. Rowling
literature world may
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. H. L. Mencken
literature critics allan-poe
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
literature great-service grows
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. Gilbert Murray
literature force gentle
There is great force hidden in a gentle command. George Herbert
literature hills walks
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. Gertrude Stein
literature audience
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
literature mouths portraits
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
literature serious peers
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. Jessica Savitch
literature planning management
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
literature entertainment events
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.