Quotes and Sayings about Literature



- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Fiction, Literature, Writers)

- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Art, Politics, Literature)

"Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature."
- George Ade
(Related: Literature)

- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Criticism, Learning, Literature, Will)

- Ama Ata Aidoo
(Related: African, Artist, Corruption, Fight, Literature)

- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Family, Work, Forget, Literature)

- Nelson Algren

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: Law, Literature, Mathematics, Writing)

- David Amram
(Related: Politics, Knowledge, Authority, Literature, World, Writing)

"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."
- David Amram
(Related: Art, Music, People, Literature)

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Romance, Literature)

- Michael P. Anderson
(Related: Music, Growing up, Interest, Kids, Literature, Writing)

"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Movies, Mistake, Language, Literature)

- Jean-Jacques Annaud

- Piers Anthony
(Related: Literature)

- Avi Arad
(Related: Life, Being, Books, Literature, Metaphors, Reading, Understanding)

- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Power, Creation, Literature, Man)

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Journalism, Literature)

- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Men, Literature, Want)

"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Literature, Mediocrity)

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Answers, Literature, Questions)

- Rene Auberjonois
(Related: Poetry, Deep, Fun, Jazz, Literature, Question, Space)

- Sherman Austin
(Related: Computers, Information, Literature)

- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Peace, Cause, Effect, Literature)

- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Peace, Idea, Literature, Publishing)

- George P. Baker
(Related: Drama, Literature, Play)

- George P. Baker
(Related: Actor, Desire, Instinct, Literature, Pleasure)

- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Science, Fiction, Literature, Reality)

- Russell Banks

"Literature is the question minus the answer."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Literature, Question)

- Roland Barthes
(Related: Literature, Saying, Trouble, Worth)

- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Aristocracy, Being, Danger, Ethics, Glory, Literature)

- Sean Bean
(Related: Wealth, Future, Literature, Will)

- Robert Benchley
(Related: Soul, Literature, Present, Spring)

"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Literature)

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Literature)

"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
- Hugh Blair
(Related: Bible, Literature, Purity, Style)

- Harold Bloom
(Related: Criticism, Literature)

- Harold Bloom
(Related: End, Literature, Suffering)

- Harold Bloom
(Related: Literary, Literature, University, Will, World)

"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."
- Roy Blount, Jr.
(Related: Women, Learning, Literature)

"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."
- Eric Bogosian
(Related: People, First, Literature, Sense, Thinking)

"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
- Emma Bonino
(Related: Knowledge, Literature, University)

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Power, Advertising, Force, Literature, Word)

- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Act, Causes, Infinite, Literature, Order)

- George Borrow
(Related: Literature, Losing, Trade)

"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Time, Literature, Living, Problems)

- David Brin
(Related: Age, Change, Science, People, Fiction, Literature)

"Bad literature is a form of treason."
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Literature, Treason)

- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, Work, Literature, World)

"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Literature)

- Thomas Edward Brown
(Related: Giving, Invention, Literature, Open, Pleasure)

- Anatole Broyard
(Related: Love, American, Literature, Nostalgia, Paradoxes, Writers)

- Steven Brust
(Related: Literature, Will, Writer)

- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Literature, Mythology)

- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Knowledge, Language, Literature, Mythology)

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Science, Literature)

- Augusten Burroughs
(Related: Life, Work, Being, Future, Literature, Study, Writer, Writing)

"All literature is political."
- LeVar Burton
(Related: Literature)

- Samuel Butler
(Related: Architecture, Music, Work, Literature, Man)

"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Art, Money, War, Literature)

"All literature is gossip."
- Truman Capote
(Related: Gossip, Literature)

- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Men, Discovery, Literary, Literature, Quantity)

"I've always said that music is like literature."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: Music, Literature)

- Michael N. Castle
(Related: African, American, Civil rights, Famous, Literature, Struggle)

- Willa Cather
(Related: Literature, Mind, Years)

- Camilo Jose Cela
(Related: Literature)

- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Age, Poetry, Cleverness, Literature)

- John Cheever
(Related: Despair, Literature, Lovers, Salvation, World)

- John Cheever
(Related: Power, Ability, Consciousness, Danger, Literature, Will)

- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Wife, Literature, Medicine, Night)

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Fiction, Literature, Luxury, Necessity)

"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Literature, Order)

- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Effect, Job, Light, Literature, Originality, Rest, Spontaneity, Youth)

"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
- J. M. Coetzee
(Related: Culture, Imitation, Influence, Literature, Mind)

- J. M. Coetzee
(Related: Life, Thought, Virtue, Literature, Occupation, Word, Writer)

- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Forget, Kinship, Literature, Philosophy)

- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Idols, Literature, Past, Philosophy)

"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Idols, Literature, Past, Philosophy)

- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Science, Literature, Philosophy)

"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Work, Idols, Literature, Philosophy)

"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Genius, People, Being, Literature, Wit)

- Barry Commoner
(Related: Art, Environmental, Education, Concern, Journalism, Law, Literature, Medicine, Now, Public)

- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Art, Journalism, Literature, Will, Writing)

- James Connolly
(Related: People, Inspiration, Literature)

- Tony Conrad
(Related: Actions, Communication, Literature)

- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Life, Literature, Self, Struggle)

- Mason Cooley
(Related: First, Literary, Literature, Theory)

- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Work, Father, Brother, Literature, Theater)

- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Work, Mistake, Life, Literature, Study)

"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"
- Julio Cortazar
(Related: Destruction, Help, Literature, Writer)

- Edward Dahlberg
(Related: Earth, Literature)

- Robyn Davidson
(Related: Travel, Literature)

- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Science, Boasts, Ignorance, Incompetence, Literature, Mathematics)

- Christopher Dawson
(Related: American, Content, Literature, World)

- Dorothy Day
(Related: Christ, Literature, Meetings, Night, Reading, Spiritual, Study)

- Don DeLillo
(Related: Work, Perception, Being, Literature, Writer)

- Andrew Denton
(Related: Music, Art, Earth, Literature, May, Shakespeare)

"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Dream, Language, Literature, Philosophy, Writing)

- Denis Diderot
(Related: Art, Science, Literature, Man, Name, Personality, Philosophy, Years)

- Annie Dillard
(Related: Literature, Will, World, Writer)

- Carl Clinton Van Doren
(Related: Experience, Imagination, Power, Knowledge, Facts, Learning, Literature, Sound)

"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
(Related: Adventure, Service, Word)

- William O. Douglas
(Related: Literature)

- Rita Dove
(Related: Adversity, Being, Literature, Oppression, Order, Words)

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Art, People, Interest, Literature, Years)

- Rita Dove
(Related: Poetry, Children, Curriculum, Literature, Talk, Teachers, Trying)

- Elizabeth Drew
(Related: Literature, Reading)

- John Drinkwater

- Helen Dunmore
(Related: Age, History, Culture, Language, Literature, Russia)

- Marguerite Duras
(Related: Journalism, Literature, Word, Workers)

- Lawrence Durrell
(Related: Love, Literature, Woman)

- Robert Duvall
(Related: Music, Culture, Literature)

- David Eddings
(Related: Time, Work, American, Day, Literature, Sun)

- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: Age, Life, Thought, Actor, Day, Literature, Old, Shakespeare)

- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Politics, Religion, Literature)

- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Literature, Praise, Respect)

- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Religion, Literature)

- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: Sex, American, Force, Influence, Literature, Publishing)

- Ernst Fischer
(Related: Dreams, Duty, Literature, Prosperity, Terror)

- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Science, Facts, Literature)

- Minnie Maddern Fiske
(Related: Art, Music, People, Literature, Painting, Question, Taste, Theater, Understanding)

- Robert Fitzgerald
(Related: Language, Literature)

- Carlisle Floyd
(Related: Love, Music, Basketball, Literature, School, Theater)

- Dario Fo

- Milos Forman
(Related: Sex, Countries, Drugs, Literature, Nothing, Television, Violence, Years)

- E. M. Forster
(Related: Literature, Man)

"Reverence is fatal to literature."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Literature)

- Jonathan Frakes
(Related: American, Baseball, Jazz, Literature, Writers)

- Milton Friedman
(Related: Architecture, Government, Science, Civilization, Agriculture, Literature, Painting)

- Stephen Fry
(Related: Love, Children, English, Literature, Shakespeare, University, Want)

- Northrop Frye
(Related: Art, Work, Day, Invention, Law, Literature)

- Clifford Geertz
(Related: History, Science, Anthropology, Consciousness, Gender, Literature)

"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
- Clifford Geertz
(Related: Soul, People, Literature)

- Clifford Geertz
(Related: Anthropology, Literature, Research, Writing)

- Elizabeth George
(Related: Literature, Will)

"Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Literature)

- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Life, Literature, Violence)

- Tom Glazer
(Related: Love, Music, Choice, Literature, Profession)

- Alma Gluck
(Related: Art, Work, Literature, Martyr, Sense, Will)

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Literature, Nation)

- Herbert Gold
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Careers, Literature, Living, Meaning, Memories, Nerves, Writers)

"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."
- Stephen Greenblatt
(Related: Literature, Nothing, Physics, Pleasure, Worth, Writing)

- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Work, Poetry, Life, Literature)

"When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Literature)

"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
(Related: Religion, English, Literature)

- Marilyn Hacker

"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
- Mark Haddon
(Related: Science, Answers, Literature, Questions, Will)

- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Quality, People, Knowledge, Day, Literature)

- Dashiell Hammett
(Related: American, Influence, Literature)

- Christopher Hampton
(Related: Life, Belief, Being, Disappointments, Energy, Literature, Result, World)

- Knut Hamsun
(Related: Work, Debt, Literature, Merit, Names)

- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Literature)

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Family, First, Friends, Literature, Writing)

- S. I. Hayakawa
(Related: People, Literature, Sense, Will)

- S. I. Hayakawa
(Related: Life, People, Literature, Sense, Will)

- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Poetry, Europe, Literature)

"The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: People, Literature, Philosophy)

- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Thought, Bible, Being, Emotion, First, Literary, Literature, Study)

- Lafcadio Hearn

"Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Change, Literature)

- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Bible, English, Literary, Literature, Reason, Study)

- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Love, Poetry, English, Fiction, Literature, Passion)

- Joseph Heller
(Related: Literature)

- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: American, Literature)

- Herman Hesse
(Related: People, Ability, Desire, Fault, Literature)

- Herman Hesse
(Related: Letters, Literature)

"I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late."
- Utada Hikaru
(Related: Literature)

- Brad Holland
(Related: Art, Movies, People, America, Literature, Painting, Popular)

- Sidney Hook
(Related: Aspirations, Capitalism, Literature, Socialism)

- A. E. Housman
(Related: Perception, Discrimination, Literature, Opinions)

"Every man's memory is his private literature."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Literature, Man, Memory)

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Science, Literature)

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Money, Science, Books, Literature)

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: Literature)

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: American, Literature, Writing)

- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Art, Literature, Trade)

- Muhammad Iqbal
(Related: History, Life, Leader, Islam, Culture, Law, Literature, Party, Study)

- Washington Irving
(Related: Charm, Land, Literature)

- Henry James
(Related: History, Literature)

- Jim Jarmusch
(Related: Literature, Paris)

- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Society, Time, Draft, Expression, Literature)

"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, Literature, Moments, Value)

"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(Related: Work, Evolution, Literary, Literature, Philosophy)

- Sarah Orne Jewett
(Related: Literature, Mind, Years)

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Music, Art, Literature)

"The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s."
- Nick Johnson
(Related: Literature)

- James Earl Jones
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Ability, Drama, Language, Literature, Mind, Sermons)

- John K. Van De Kamp
(Related: Life, Sex, Children, Literature)

- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Literature, Possession)

- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Literature, Struggle)

- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Travel, Exploration, First, Literature, Reading, Reflection, Writing)

"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Poetry, Heart, Learning, Literature, Prose, Tradition)

"Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way."
- Harvey Keitel
(Related: People, Ideas, Thoughts, Literature, Want)

"What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better."
- Harvey Keitel
(Related: Help, Literature, Words, Years)

- Helen Keller
(Related: Embarrassment, Friends, Literature, Senses, Talk, Utopia)

"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
- Thomas Keneally
(Related: Church, Literature, World)

- Caroline Kennedy

- William Kennedy
(Related: Work, Music, Ego, Literature, Self, Sense)

- Kenneth Koch
(Related: Family, Mother, Being, Literary, Literature)

- Polykarp Kusch

- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Art, Life, Character, Strength, Consciousness, Deep, Literature, Spiritual)

"And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international."
- Irving Langmuir
(Related: Literature)

"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature."
- Steig Larsson
(Related: Entertainment, Light, Literature, Propaganda, Question, Writing)

- Comte de Lautreamont
(Related: Desire, Despair, Literature, Order, Sense)

"Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Deep, Literature)

- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Art, Literature)

- Stephen Leacock
(Related: Music, Class, Literature, Medicine)

"Gossip is more popular than literature."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Gossip, Literature, Popular)

"Literature is analysis after the event."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: Literature)

- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Love, Energy, Film, Literature, Nostalgia)

"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Experience, Literature)

"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature)

"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Progress, Cause, Effect, Literature)

"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature)

"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature, World)

- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Imitation, Literature, May)

- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, Effect, Literature, Public, Succeed)

- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Art, Truth, Caring, Literature, Man, Originality, Will)

- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Life, Literature, Reality, Respect)

- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: American, Literature)

"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
- Sol LeWitt
(Related: Art, Music, Literature)

"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Poetry, Literature)

"I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them."
- John Walker Lindh
(Related: History, Love, People, Heart, Literature)

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
- Penelope Lively
(Related: Children, Feeling, Interest, Literature)

"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
- Belva Lockwood
(Related: Women, Politics, Sex, Virtue, Law, Literature, Modesty, Trade)

- David Lodge
(Related: Life, Sex, Children, Literature)

- James Loeb
(Related: Time, Attention, Day, Enjoyment, Literature, Past, Schools, Teaching)

- James Loeb
(Related: Quality, People, Knowledge, Wealth, Literature, Pity, Variety)

- Samuel Lover
(Related: Cure, Literature, Man, Nothing, Pen)

- Amy Lowell
(Related: Science, Literature)

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: Nature, Art, Men, Civilization, Common sense, Literature, World)

- Robert Lynd
(Related: History, Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Literature, Quarrels, Will)

- Mary MacLane
(Related: Literature, World)

- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Work, Actors, Emotions, Literature, Reading)

"Without literature my life would be miserable."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Life, Literature)

- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: People, Literature, Now, Will, World)

- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Time, Life, Feeling, First, Literature)

- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Money, Literature, Nothing, Writing)

- Albert Maltz
(Related: Body, Fact, Freedom, Inspiring, Literature, Man, Socialism, Will)

- Paul de Man
(Related: Time, Truth, Being, Error, Literature)

"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Instinct, Literature, Suffering)

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Literature, Nothing, Reality, Wood)

"The crown of literature is poetry."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Poetry, Literature)

- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Life, Brothers, Literature, Now)

- Andre Maurois
(Related: Love, Literature)

"I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs."
- James McAvoy
(Related: Character, Chance, Children, Favorite, Jobs, Literature, Play)

- David McCullough
(Related: Art, Experience, History, Music, Being, Literature, Pleasure, Responsibility)

- Josh McDowell
(Related: Power, Religion, Followers, Literature)

"I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence."
- John Metcalf
(Related: Excellence, Literature, Lust, Press, Writers)

- Henry Miller
(Related: Life, Music, People, Forget, Interest, Literature, World)

- Henry Miller

- Henry Miller
(Related: Literature, Open)

- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Literature)

- Andrea Mitchell

"Literature precedes genre."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Literature)

- John Morley
(Related: Literature)

"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Art, Literature, Tolerance)

- Kate Mulgrew
(Related: Quality, Talent, Difference, Elegance, Literature, Word)

- Iris Murdoch
(Related: Emotions, Literature)

- Gilbert Murray
(Related: History, Truth, Literature)

"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
- Gilbert Murray
(Related: Literature, Reading)

"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
- Len G. Murray
(Related: Religion, Columbus, Literature, World)

- Robert Musil
(Related: Deep, Literature, Man)

- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Butterflies, Literature, Man)

- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Talent, Literature, School)

- Joseph Needham
(Related: Interest, Literature)

"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."
- Howard Nemerov
(Related: Love, Time, Day, Literature)

- John Henry Newman
(Related: Literature, Memory, Mind)

- Albert J. Nock
(Related: Life, History, Knowledge, Mathematics, Will)

"A great speech is literature."
- Peggy Noonan
(Related: Literature, Speech)

- Michael Novak
(Related: Character, Literature, Years)

- Robert Nozick
(Related: Being, Crime, Depression, Literature)

- Robert Nozick
(Related: Literature, Now, Past)

- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Thought, English, Literature)

"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Business, Direction, Literature, Sense)

- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: Literature, World, Writers)

- Ben Okri
(Related: Home, Literature, London, Shakespeare)

- George Andrew Olah
(Related: Time, Work, First, Literature, London)

- Ken Olsen
(Related: Business, Computer, Literature)

- George Orwell
(Related: Literature, Prose)

- Boris Pasternak
(Related: Art, People, Literature, Saying, Words)

- James Payn
(Related: Literature, Present, Prizes)

"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."
- James Payn
(Related: People, Idea, Literature)

"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."
- James Payn
(Related: Driving, Literature)

- James Payn
(Related: Literature)

- Octavio Paz
(Related: History, Nature, Expression, Feeling, Language, Literature, Sense, Silence)

- Shimon Peres
(Related: History, Sports, Basketball, Interest, Literature, School)

"He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Literature)

- David Petraeus
(Related: Literature, Oil, Trying, Will)

- Steven Pinker
(Related: Art, Music, Poetry, Language, Literature, Mind, Painting, Sculpture)

- Frederik Pohl
(Related: Science, English, Fiction, Literature, Old)

- Ezra Pound
(Related: Ability, Literature, Writers)

"Literature is news that stays news."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Literature, News)

"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Age, Literature)

- Ezra Pound
(Related: Language, Literature, Meaning)

"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Literature, Nation)

"And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature."
- Jerry Pournelle
(Related: Literary, Literature)

- Lawrence Clark Powell
(Related: Strength, Vision, Literature, Needs, Writer)

- Manuel Puig
(Related: Decision, Literature)

- Manuel Puig
(Related: First, Literature)

"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Literature, Tardiness)

- Philip Pullman
(Related: Education, English, Importance, Literature, Reading, Years)

"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
- Raymond Queneau
(Related: Literature)

"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."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Literature, Prose)

"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
- Paul Ricoeur
(Related: Wisdom, Expression, Literary, Literature)

- George Ripley
(Related: Love, Men, Cause, Devotion, Literature, Taste, Theories)

- Jim Rohn
(Related: Truth, People, Fiction, Literature, Reason, Study)

- Phyllis Rose
(Related: Women, Literature, Tradition)

- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Inspiration, Books, Literature, Living)

- Francoise Sagan
(Related: Art, Life, Illusion, Literature)

- George Saintsbury
(Related: History, Absence, Facts, Fiction, Literary, Literature, Name, Prose)

- Harrison Salisbury
(Related: Economics, Journalism, Language, Liberal, Literature, Students)

- Frederick Sanger
(Related: Beauty, Life, Father, Truth, Literature, Prizes, Pursuit)

"The Bible is literature, not dogma."
- George Santayana
(Related: Bible, Literature)

- Jose Saramago
(Related: Cliches, Doubt, Heroes, Literary, Literature, Uncertainty)

- Jose Saramago
(Related: Time, Possibility, Job, Worth, Writer)

- Nathalie Sarraute
(Related: Literature, Trying, Universe, Will, Writers)

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Literature, Trouble, Worth)

"Literature is the immortality of speech."
- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
(Related: Immortality, Literature, Speech)

"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical."
- Barbet Schroeder
(Related: Movies, Literature)

"Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village."
- Michael Scott
(Related: Christian, Bible, Literature)

- Walter Scott
(Related: History, Knowledge, Literature, May)

- W. G. Sebald
(Related: Chance, Literature, Memory, Mind, Question)

- Yahoo Serious
(Related: Movies, Music, Literature, Theatre)

- Ravi Shankar
(Related: Music, Literature)

- Robert Gould Shaw
(Related: Age, Literature)

- Isaac Bashevis Singer
(Related: Life, War, Death, Emotion, Emotions, Intellect, Literature, Silly)

"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
- Douglas Sirk
(Related: Thought, Heart, Artists, Literature)

- Josef Skvorecky
(Related: Criticism, Literature, Lovers, Sea, Shipwreck, Treasure, Will)

- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Truth, Economics, Literature)

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Heart, Force, Freedom, Literature, Memory, Nation, Press)

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Education, Affectation, Literature, Will, World)

"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Literature, Living, Memory, Nation)

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Experience, Literature, Living, Memory, Nation)

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Art, Experience, Literature)

- Boris Spassky
(Related: Knowledge, Chess, Familiarity, Literature)

"I studied literature design and fashion design."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Design, Fashion, Literature)

"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Sex, Literature)

"Hemingway's remarks are not literature."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Literature)

- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Art, People, Difference, Literature)

"Remarks are not literature."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Literature)

- John Steinbeck
(Related: Dedication, Literature, Man, Writer)

- Wallace Stevens
(Related: American, Americans, English, Literature, Nothing, Sensibility)

"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."
- Wallace Stevens
(Related: Life, Literature)

"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."
- Anne Stevenson
(Related: Art, Science, Criticism, Help, Jargon, Literary, Literature)

"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
- Anne Stevenson
(Related: Music, Literature, Shakespeare)

- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Difficulty, Literature)

- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Art, Literature, Style)

- Stephen Stills
(Related: Love, Men, Literature)

"The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
- Lytton Strachey
(Related: Literature)

- Lytton Strachey
(Related: Drama, English, Literature, Measure, Mind, Shakespeare, Value)

"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
- Lytton Strachey
(Related: Evil, Existence, Literature, Question)

"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought."
- Lytton Strachey
(Related: Thought, Literature, Writers)

- Lytton Strachey
(Related: EnglFrance, Glory, Italy, Literature, Shakespeare, Spain)

- David Strathairn
(Related: Culture, Film, Literature)

- Jacqueline Susann
(Related: Literature)

- Lynn Swann
(Related: Politics, Time, Art, Education, Science, African, Country, Literature)

"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
- Antonio Tabucchi
(Related: Dreams, Fantasy, Job, Literature)

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
- Antonio Tabucchi
(Related: Life, Being, Literature)

"It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen."
- Randall Terry
(Related: Power, Revolution, Literature, World)

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
- Ken Thompson
(Related: Gardening, Work, Job, Literature, Reading)

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
- Polly Toynbee
(Related: Art, History, Culture, Literature, Sense, World)

- Lionel Trilling
(Related: Society, Authority, Culture, Literature, Quarrel, Self, Sense)

- Barbara Tuchman
(Related: History, Science, Thought, Civilization, Books, Dumb, Literature)

"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Literature)

"The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors."
- Tristan Tzara
(Related: Future, Guidance, Literature, Rest)

- Paul Valery
(Related: Science, Successful, Literature, Rest)

- Gore Vidal
(Related: Time, Virtue, Literature, World, Writers)

- Alfred de Vigny
(Related: Heart, Progress, Literature, Study, Today)

- Joan D. Vinge
(Related: Science, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Reading, Variety)

"Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Language, Literature, Past, Want)

- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Motivation, Focus, Literature, Tradition)

- Larry Wall
(Related: Music, Science, Architecture, Computer, Literature, Post)

- Julie Walters
(Related: People, Literature, Shakespeare)

- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Being, Country, Literature)

"Our literature is in great shape."
- James Welch
(Related: Literature)

- Irvine Welsh
(Related: People, Literature, Newspapers)

- Irvine Welsh
(Related: Society, Celebrity, Literature, London, Now)

- Irvine Welsh
(Related: People, Books, Literature, Scotland)

- E. B. White
(Related: Literature)

- Patrick White
(Related: Life, Discovery, Fact, Literature)

- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Expression, Humanity, Literature)

- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Humor, Bible, Absence, Literature)

- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Difference, Journalism, Literature)

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Literature)

- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Science, History, Poetry, Biography, Fiction, Literature, Philosophy, Want)

- Terri Windling
(Related: Hope, Consciousness, Fantasy, Literature, Media, Myth, Public)

- Terri Windling

"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
- Tobias Wolff
(Related: People, Feelings, Literature, Teaching, Writing)

"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
- George Woodcock
(Related: Compromise, Literature, Want)

- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Literature, Shakespeare, Writing)

- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Men, Nature, Artist, Literature, Mind, Opinions, Reason)

- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Men, Literature, Opinions, Reason)

"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
- Herman Wouk
(Related: Interest, Judaism, Literature, Sons)

"Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature."
- Gao Xingjian
(Related: Literature)

- Gao Xingjian
(Related: History, Literature, Self, Writing)

"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
- A. B. Yehoshua
(Related: Gold, Literature, Relationships)

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Related: Politics, Control, Literature)

"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."
- Cao Yu
(Related: Society, People, Ideas, Literature, Will)

- Mao Zedong
(Related: Art, Politics, Cause, Fact, Literature)