Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

I have grown up in a family where cinema, literature and music are highly valued.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.