Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

I read Russian literature a lot.

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.