Quotes about literature
literature human-nature sometimes
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
literature feels
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
literature different wake-up
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley
literature gideon too-late
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
literature branches results
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. Andrew Cohen
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. Amos Oz
literature psychological
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
literature painting music-is
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
literature
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
literature
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
literature
Literature is about telling stories.
literature not-sure
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
literature loyal austen
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Anne Stevenson
literature outsiders groups
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. Anne Rice
literature world needs
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
literature persons
Each person has a literature inside them. Anna Deavere Smith
literature drs ruined
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Anita Brookner
literature advertising force
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Daniel J. Boorstin
literature consciousness ends
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. D. H. Lawrence
literature vivid matter
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
literature good-literature
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike David Foster Wallace
literature world festivals
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Bierce
literature stories novel
NOVEL, n. A short story padded...
literature world levels
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. Alice Walker
literature language institutions
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. Annie Besant
literature honestly written
Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. Annie Dillard
literature life-is middle
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Anna Quindlen
literature pins hypothesis
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. Angela Carter
literature pick-me subjects
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me. Andy Rooney
literature paper may
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
literature reminding-yourself reminding
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Andre Breton