Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.