Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such intense sociality. There are some small mammals that have become eusocial - the mole rats - but that's a different thing. Humans are able to understand one another at very high levels, to cooperate in very large groups. Humans depend on one another in ways that are an absolute precondition to sharing the kinds of information that makes narrative possible.

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.