Literature Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Literature
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~ A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ~

Sir Walter Scott

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

Martin H. Fischer

~ The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it. ~

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Clifford Geertz

~ I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~

John Steinbeck

~ The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ Bad literature is a form of treason. ~

Joseph Brodsky

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

Cyril Connolly

~ 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

~ Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. ~

Morris Raphael Cohen

~ The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades ~

Mark Twain

~ Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic. ~

W. Giese

~ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ~

Stephen Leacock

~ The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. ~

Salman Rushdie

~ Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ~

D. H. Lawrence

~ The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ In literature imitations do not imitate ~

Mark Twain

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

~ Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other ~

Anton Chekhov

~ Writing in my sixty-fourth year, I can truthfully say that since I reached the age of discretion I have consistently drunk more than most people would say is good for me. Nor did I regret it. Wine has been for me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things but not to do them. ~

Duff Cooper

~ Writing in my sixty-fourth year, I can truthfully say that since I reached the age of discretion I have consistently drunk more than most people would say is good for me. Nor did I regret it. Wine has been for me a firm friend and a wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things but not to do them. ~

Duff Cooper

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

Clifford Geertz

~ I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. ~

Clifford Geertz

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

Vaclav Havel

~ The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ~

Tristan Tzara

~ Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ~

Robert Lynd

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