Top 1200 Ancient Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in front of them. It's ancient entertainment, ancient storytelling and oral history - now we're doing it on YouTube.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue - and when it does, it's deadly dull. But literature can supply the frame within which we come to observe and reason, or it can change our frame in highly significant ways. That's one of the achievements I'd claim for Mann, and for Death in Venice.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task. You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.