Literature Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Literature
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~ It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression ~

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Camilo Jose Cela

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

Cyril Connolly

~ Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~

Martin H. Fischer

~ Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ~

Joseph Roux

~ I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. ~

Sidney Hook

~ Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ~

James Loeb

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

~ Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ~

Clifford Geertz

~ Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ~

Clifford Geertz

~ If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. ~

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

~ Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. ~

Terri Windling

~ This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. ~

F. L. Lucas

~ A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. ~

DARIO FO

~ My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ~

Jim Rohn

~ Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ~

J G Ballard

~ Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ~

Josef Skvorecky

~ Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ~

Steven Pinker

~ The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ~

Milton Friedman

~ My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~

Matthew Arnold

~ Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated in the human mind mired in tradition, myth and many kinds of falsehoods. They demand a form of changing social awakening. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul ~

Thomas Moore

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