Quotes about literature
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 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.
literature fantasy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo
literature littles gypsy
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. Douglas William Jerrold
literature process secretive
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on. Donald Miller
literature outsiders conflict
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept. Colin Wilson
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 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 painting
I never really separated painting and literature. Cy Twombly
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 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 world slumps
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter