Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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 terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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'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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

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

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

In every parting there is an image of death.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.