Quotes about literature
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 joyful revelations
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. Alberto Manguel
literature absence
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead
literature pseudo strange
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? Alfred Kazin
literature three beastly
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
literature literary-devices devices
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
literature
Literature is about telling stories. Amos Oz
literature not-sure
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
literature loyal austen
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Anne Stevenson
literature outsiders groups
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. Anne Rice
literature world needs
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
literature persons
Each person has a literature inside them. Anna Deavere Smith
literature drs ruined
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Anita Brookner
literature world festivals
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Bierce
literature stories novel
NOVEL, n. A short story padded...
literature world levels
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. Alice Walker
literature able groups
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles. Anderson Cooper
literature life-is middle
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Anna Quindlen
literature pins hypothesis
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. Angela Carter
literature pick-me subjects
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me. Andy Rooney
literature paper may
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
literature reminding-yourself reminding
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Andre Breton
literature depends
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. Andre Gide
literature newspapers
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. Alphonse de Lamartine
literature hostile paid
For hostile word let hostile word be paid. Aeschylus
literature forget speak
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
literature fortune rejoice
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
literature born easier
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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.