Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.