Quotes about literature
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 world-literature answers
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes
literature common
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
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 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.
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