Top 1200 World Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

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

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

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

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

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

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.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

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

Literature bores me, especially great literature

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 feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

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

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

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.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

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.

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.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

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

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

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.

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

The writer studies literature, not the world.

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

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.

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.

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.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

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.

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

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

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

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.

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.

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

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

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.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

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

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.

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

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.