Literature Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Literature
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~ Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~

~ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ~

Barbara W. Tuchman

~ Every man's memory is his private literature. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments ~

Isaac Asimov

~ Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ~

Jules Renard

~ The crown of literature is poetry. ~

William Somerset Maugham

~ Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, musicthe world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~

Henry Miller 1891

~ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ~

C.S. Lewis

~ The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. ~

Harold Bloom

~ History without politics descends to mere Literature. ~

Sir John Robert Seely

~ In literature and art memory is a synonyme for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. ~

Robert Aris Willmott

~ The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~

John Burroughs

~ Literature is the immortality of speech ~

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

~ Literature is the immortality of speech ~

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

~ A great speech is literature. ~

Peggy Noonan

~ A great speech is literature. ~

Peggy Noonan

~ Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Romance is the poetry of literature. ~