Top 1200 Literary Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Everything is just make believe. They're just different versions of make believe. I love the period of this movie [The Finest Hours]. I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style of the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the lights and the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.