Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

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

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

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

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

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

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

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

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

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

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.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

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

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

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 great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

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

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

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

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

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

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

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

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

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

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

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

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

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.

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.

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

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.

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.

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

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