Quotes about literature
literature world facts
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. Friedrich Durrenmatt
literature majority doe
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. Friedrich Schiller
literature century creatures
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
literature converting opposition
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature approach
I have no literary approach - except to literature. George Balanchine
literature
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Henry David Thoreau
literature advantage enjoy
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
literature goodness natural
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
literature way shelley
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Lord Byron
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature horror should
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. Whitley Strieber
literature protest
All literature is protest. Richard Wright
literature trios novelists
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Russell Baker
literature way fiction
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. Tucker Max
literature analysis instinct
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. Trevor Nunn
literature world-literature answers
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes
literature common
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. Samuel Johnson
literature inappropriate source
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. Wallace Stevens
literature spirit humans
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
literature terrible grows
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
literature infinity attention
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself. William Jones
literature architecture painting
Literature is painting, architecture, and music. Yevgeny Zamyatin
literature reader
Your reader is at least as bright as you are William Maxwell
literature serious doe
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. Witold Gombrowicz
literature littles
Literature tells very little to those who understand it. Walter Benjamin
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
literature antagonist felt
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
literature painting problem
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.