Top 1200 World Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

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

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

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

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

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

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

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

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

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

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

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

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

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

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

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

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

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

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71

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

Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

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

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Kids are kids; they're innocents, they really are. For a long time, no matter what they see, no matter what they're exposed to, they can't get it until they have developed enough.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

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

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

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

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

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

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

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

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

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

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

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

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