Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

Writers of literature make very little money.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.