Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says, "The realm of the spirit is roomy and broad. It is open to all." I've absolutely staked my life on that.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.