Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

That complete statement which is literature.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.