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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.
I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
