Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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

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

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

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.