Quotes about literature
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature consideration method
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
literature able comfort
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature needs humans
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. Edwidge Danticat
literature today weakness
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young
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 good-literature
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike David Foster Wallace
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 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 conversation madmen
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. Anatole France
literature human-nature sometimes
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
literature feels
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
literature different wake-up
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley
literature gideon too-late
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
literature branches results
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. Andrew Cohen
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. Amos Oz
literature psychological
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
literature painting music-is
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
literature
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
literature
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
literature
Literature is about telling stories.
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