Literature Quotes - Page 2

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

Silas W. Mitchell

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.

The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Dr. Thomas Bowdler

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it!

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.

Edouard Bourdet

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Walter Savage Landor

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.

Anonymous

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

In literary history generation follows generation in a rage.

To be a good diarist one must have a little snouty sneaky mind.

Harold Nicolson

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.

George Meredith

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Randall Jarrell

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

W. Giese

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Julio Cortázar

In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Words are living things.

Eric Onyango Otieno

You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously,Only God’s love is the precious wine.And She evengives it to everyone.For free!

Good is not always good.

Dejan Stojanovic

Joy, it is, which I’ve never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self – delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.

Mary Karr

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

Mary Karr

Human communication and literature are all made of words; thus, it’s hard to overestimate their unbelievable power.

Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.

Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try.

To maintain your honesty , one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

If there is no perfection of a work , be sure the perfection of a plan.

We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

Patience Johnson

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line.

Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.

Gustave Flaubert

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

Vera B. Williams

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

Frederick Glaysher

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

Dejan Stojanovic

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Dejan Stojanovic

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

Dejan Stojanovic

Procreation annihilates eternity.

Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God's son.

Dejan Stojanovic

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