Top 1200 Love Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence.

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.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

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

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

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

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 have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

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

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

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

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.

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

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

I love English and literature.

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

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

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

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest.

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

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.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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.

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.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

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

My first love is literature.

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.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

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.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

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

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

I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.