Quotes about literature
literature marxist socialist
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. Adolf Hitler
literature scripts pieces
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. Abel Ferrara
literature mourn
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. Aeschylus
literature guile
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
literature eternity
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. Agatha Christie
literature seems
Very few of us are what we seem.
literature stories language
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is. Aleksandar Hemon
literature fiction-and-nonfiction bosnians
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
literature fundamentals significant
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
literature tasks produce
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly
literature invisible made
It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible. Danielle Steel
literature fame wanted
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
literature stories life-is
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. Colum McCann
literature world slumps
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter
literature definitions argument
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author. Kurt Vonnegut
literature relief realizing
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
literature speak disappear
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
literature british undergraduate
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. David Eagleman
literature danger nobel
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. David Eddings
literature saws depth
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves. Dante Alighieri
literature more-to-life
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
literature language institutions
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. Annie Besant
literature honestly written
Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. Annie Dillard
literature advertising force
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Daniel J. Boorstin
literature consciousness ends
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. D. H. Lawrence
literature vivid matter
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
literature praise satire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope
literature ought
I am certainly an ought and not a must. E. M. Forster
literature reverence
Reverence is fatal to literature.
literature fantasy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo
literature periods exciting
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. Doris Lessing
literature events analysis
Literature is analysis after the event.
literature good-literature
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike David Foster Wallace