Quotes about literature
literature form bother
You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other. Samuel Beckett
literature trade pursue
Never pursue literature as a trade. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
literature american-literature immigrants
American literature has always been immigrant. Salman Rushdie
literature want realizing
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. Kevin J. Anderson
literature complexes
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. Kevin Kelly
literature eavesdropping
Literature is eavesdropping. Ralph Waldo Emerson
literature done ill
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
literature debtors fiction
Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
literature biographies fables
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
literature sorcery stories
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. Terry Tempest Williams
literature grids form
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. Terence McKenna
literature lexicographer dictionary
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. Samuel Johnson
literature raised
I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature
literature temperature truth-is
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. Roy Blount, Jr.
literature greater
Literature is greater than any of us, dammit. Romain Gary
literature hallmark american-literature
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. Tayari Jones
literature psychedelic natural
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. Stanislav Grof
literature cost postmodernism
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow
literature language appreciated
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. Thomas Bulfinch
literature
I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself... Thomas Bernhard
literature quiet tranquility
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. Rita Mae Brown
literature platitudes orchestration
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder
literature facts problem
In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily. Thomas Huxley
literature communicate
All that is literature seeks to communicate power Thomas de Quincey
literature
It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory. Tom Baker
literature genre be-good
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. Vanna Bonta
literature degrees masters
My master's degree was in English literature. Sylvia Browne
literature begets
Literature usually begets literature. Susan Sontag
literature makers myth
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
literature muse modern
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
literature trials obscenity
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? Rex Stout
literature way culture
It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast. Rick Riordan
literature sadistic cruelty
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human. Storm Jameson