Quotes about literature
literature fantasy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo
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 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 stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
literature used print
I used to be a print reporter. Bob Schieffer
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 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 good-literature
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike David Foster Wallace
literature painting
I never really separated painting and literature. Cy Twombly
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 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