Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and its literature into their ancient contexts. And to rebuild - that is, to me, a very exciting historical task.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.