Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

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.

You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes of storytelling. Diversity generates need for conversation, conversation generates common interests, as well as differences. Literature, as a human project, is all about that.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

You have to make it happen.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and the depth of their meanings, the characters movements towards high convictions whether in the beginning or in the middle, and the ending must serves ideals and values and accomplishes victory to the human beings.

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge, habits and attitudes. Each reader reads a different book. Each reader imagines a different story. A few years ago, for instance, a friend of my mother's sent me a copy of a test on Rite of Passage that she had given her students. The first question read: "True or False? The theme of Rite of Passage is..." I can't tell you what the presumed themed was, but I can tell you that I didn't recognize it. Beads of sweat leaped out of my forehead. After two more questions, I had to put the test aside. I didn't know the "right" answers.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

A boy trying out a man's language.

. . . Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot...

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