Literature Quotes
Quotes about Literature
23 quotes
- “Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is...” — John Kessel
- “...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2...” — Mikkel Wallentin
- “Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your tell...” — Hillel F. Damron
- “Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn...” — Graham Moore
- “A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone...” — Julien Gracq
- “The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.” — Silas W. Mitchell
- “...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.” — Bruce Meyer
- “We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature...Literature is a compass;” — Thabo Jijana
- “The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.” — John Gaddis
- “Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.” — F.r. Leavis
- “As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.” — Ross Wetzsteon
- “What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior
- “Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.” — W. Giese
- “Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.” — Guo Moruo
- “Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala
- “Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue.” — Special Snowflake
- “Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.” — George Meredith
- “Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.” — Dr. Thomas Bowdler
- “Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.” — Prex J.d.v. Ybasco
- “The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.” — Hugh Blair
- “...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.” — Daphne Kalotay
- “...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.” — Saadat Hasan Manto
- “When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself” — H.b. Ida