Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

I'm not an urban person.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

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

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.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I'm tired of getting made fun of. The reason I took on The New York Times as ferociously as I did is that I'm tired of being the little icon that people stick pins in, the whipping boy for everything that's gone wrong in this business. Whatever my excess, I think that I've been trumped in many areas by others.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.