Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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 seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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

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

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 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 written some poetry I don't understand myself.

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

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

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

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 be an honest man and a good writer.

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 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 born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

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

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.