Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out of philosophical aesthetics or the study of literature and visual art, but the various strands of media theory converge in treating all of those as subsets of the study of media as form.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of words and literature. In my view, that is, however, only half true. In a roundabout way through literature, which presupposes empathy and exact observation, he immerses himself again in the life of society; in a certain sense he comes back to it.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.