Quotes on Literature

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

Author: George Ade

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Author: Piers Anthony

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Author: Armand Assante

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Author: Roland Barthes

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Author: Roland Barthes

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Author: Jose Bergamin

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Author: Peter Bichsel

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Author: George Borrow

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Author: Rita Brown

All literature is political.

Author: LeVar Burton

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Author: Willa Cather

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Author: Camilo Cela

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Author: Jean Cocteau

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Author: Annie Dillard

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Author: William Douglas

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Author: Elizabeth Drew

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Author: T. Eliot

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Author: E. Forster

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Author: E. Forster

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

Author: Elizabeth George

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Author: Charlotte Gilman

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Author: Johann Goethe

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

Author: Stanislav Grof

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Author: Vaclav Havel

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Author: Joseph Heller

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

Author: Utada Hikaru

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Author: Aldous Huxley

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Author: Guillermo Infante

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Author: Sarah Jewett

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Author: Nick Johnson

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Author: Irving Langmuir

Literature is analysis after the event.

Author: Doris Lessing

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Author: George Lewes

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Author: George Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Author: George Lewes

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

Author: Mary MacLane

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Author: Gabriel Marquez

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Author: Henry Miller

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Author: Jonathan Miller

Literature precedes genre.

Author: Rick Moody

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Author: John Morley

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Author: Gilbert Murray

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Author: John Newman

A great speech is literature.

Author: Peggy Noonan

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Author: Robert Nozick

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

Author: Kenzaburo Oe

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Author: George Orwell

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Author: James Payn

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Author: James Payn

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Author: Shimon Peres

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

Author: David Petraeus

Literature is news that stays news.

Author: Ezra Pound

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Author: Ezra Pound

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Author: Manuel Puig

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Author: Raymond Queneau

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Author: Ted Rall

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Author: Nathalie Sarraute

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Remarks are not literature.

Author: Gertrude Stein

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Author: Lytton Strachey

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Author: Jacqueline Susann

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Author: Scott Turow

Our literature is in great shape.

Author: James Welch

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Author: E. White

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Author: Thornton Wilder

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Author: Gao Xingjian

Life's greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, where one can explore the realms of imagination and discover the depths of human experience.

Author: Amelia Earhart

In the book of life, the chapters of adversity often hold the most valuable lessons.

Author: Jasmine Martinez

Between the pages of a book is where hidden treasures are found.

Author: Sophia Steele

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Author: Neil Gaiman

In the vast tapestry of life, every encounter is a thread, weaving a fate unknown.

Author: Sophia Reed

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the wildest imagination surpasses them both.

Author: Sophia Washington

The most beautiful stories are those that unfold with unexpected endings.

Author: Sophie Alvarez

Do not judge a book by its cover, for beneath the surface lies a story waiting to be uncovered.

Author: Sophia Chambers

Creativity follows no blueprint; let your imagination run wild.

Author: Harper Lee

In the darkest of moments, hope is the light that guides us out of despair.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Cherish every moment as if it were the last page of your favorite book.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Life is a book full of blank pages just waiting to be filled with adventurous stories.

Author: Olivia Bennett

The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book

Author: Samantha Adams

Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities in a world constrained by reality.

Author: Vivian Abbott

The greatest stories are not found in books, but in the chapters of our everyday lives.

Author: Maya Stevens

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Author: Charles Dickens

In the chaos of life, find peace in the simplicity of nature and the wisdom of books.

Author: Grace Greene

Life's greatest lessons are found between the pages of a book.

Author: Sophia Adams

Sometimes the greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book.

Author: Emma Watson

Endless possibilities lie within the pages of a book, waiting to be explored.

Author: Ava Johnson

In the art of storytelling, one must start with a single word and build a magical world around it.

Author: Sofia Ramirez

In the pages of a book, we hold the power to explore worlds beyond our own and unleash the creativity within us.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Be like a book: open-hearted, full of stories, and forever expanding.

Author: Maya Angelou

The only thing more powerful than intelligence is imagination.

Author: Sophie Smith

A book is a treasure trove waiting to be explored, revealing countless worlds as vast as the imagination itself.

Author: Emma Thompson

The greatest adventures are found on pages, where words are the guides to unknown lands.

Author: Olivia Jennings

Believe in the beauty of your dreams, for they hold the power to ignite your soul and inspire the world.

Author: Samantha Brooks

Sometimes the greatest adventures can be found within the pages of a book.

Author: Emily Collins

A book is the only treasure where rough diamonds are also hidden within its pages

Author: Stephanie Brown

The brightest minds are often found in books waiting to be discovered.

Author: Samantha Miller

Life is an adventure worth writing about on its own parchment.

Author: Emily Clarke

Between the pages of a book is a journey waiting to be taken.

Author: Emily Cole

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Author: Charlotte Bradshaw

Life is like a book; when you skip the chapters, you miss the story.

Author: Emily Palmer

The greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book, where the imagination knows no limits.

Author: Catherine Johnson

Imagination is the key that unlocks endless possibilities in a finite world.

Author: Alice Johnson

Life is a journey best traveled through the pages of a book.

Author: Emma Rodriguez

In the sea of books, she found her compass.

Author: Elena Charles

Do not judge a book by its cover; the true magic lies within the pages.

Author: Sarah Rivers

Embrace the chaos of creativity, for within it lies the hidden beauty of innovation.

Author: Samantha Lopez

In the pages of a book, we can discover worlds beyond our imagination.

Author: Sophia Miller

Life is a story we write one moment at a time, filled with plot twists and unexpected endings.

Author: Samantha Brown

Our creativity flourishes when we embrace the unknown and challenge conventions.

Author: Taylor Adams

Life is a book waiting to be written, so make it a bestseller.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Imagination is the key that unlocks endless possibilities in a confined world.

Author: Olivia Clarke

Every person is a story waiting to be told, a chapter waiting to unfold.

Author: Samantha Richards

The pen writes the stories of the soul with more honesty than the tongue dares to speak.

Author: Sophia Hartley

In the library of life, each book holds a unique chapter waiting to be explored.

Author: Sophia Walker

Cherish every moment as if it were the last page of your favorite book waiting to be read.

Author: Sophia Martinez

The pen is mightier than the sword when wielded with sincerity and passion.

Author: Catherine Williams

Life is a book, and every day adds a new chapter.

Author: Sophia Williams

The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book.

Author: Sarah Smith

Life is a book not meant to be skimmed, but savored chapter by chapter

Author: Serena Jenkins

Success is not about reaching the destination but embracing the journey

Author: Sophia Stewart

Experience is a lantern that lights our path through darkness.

Author: Sofia Alvarez

Every step you take pens a story of your journey, walk with purpose.

Author: Michael Johnson

The greatest adventure is finding yourself within the pages of a book.

Author: Madison Reed

We are like books, waiting for someone to discover our hidden chapters and unfold our stories.

Author: Emily Parker

Every great story starts with a sense of wonder and ends with a lesson learned.

Author: Sophia Howard

Curiosity is the compass that leads us to new adventures and discoveries

Author: Alice Walker

The greatest adventures are found in the pages of books, waiting to ignite our imagination.

Author: Samantha Reynolds

The stars only shine brightest in the darkest of nights.

Author: Harper Lee

In the sea of uncertainty, let your passion be the lighthouse guiding your way.

Author: Alice Walker

Life is a bookshelf filled with experiences waiting to be read.

Author: Sophia Stewart

Do not judge a book by its cover, for beneath the surface lies a story waiting to be discovered.

Author: Harper Johnson

Life is a book - full of chapters, twists, and unforgettable characters.

Author: Rachel Anderson

Do not judge a book by its cover; instead, read the pages carefully and savor the beauty within.

Author: Sofia Kim

Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, inviting us to explore the endless possibilities of imagination.

Author: Sarah Carter

Life is a journey best enjoyed in the company of good books.

Author: Emma Watson

Become the author of your own story, for the pen is always in your hand.

Author: Sophia Nguyen

In the darkness is where we find strength to shine our brightest light.

Author: Sophia Alvarez

Every great story starts with a leap of faith.

Author: Sophia Johnson

No dream is too big when fueled by passion and purpose.

Author: Sophia Johnson

Do not let the darkness dim your light, for even in the deepest shadows, starlight still shines bright.

Author: Serena Patel

Let your passion be the compass that guides you through the storms of life.

Author: Sophia Richards