Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don`t speak our language, these folks coming from other places - it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.