Literature Quotes

"A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially."

"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

"Literature is a term that cannot be applied to writings or poems that reel off tales that are false. It should not emerge from the egotistic fancies of the individual."

"They know where the people are. But what are they doing for the people they're handing the literature to?"

"We are concerned that literature has been found in American mosques that has a message that is not tolerant, and we hope the people of Saudi Arabia will work with us as we try to deal with this issue,"

"A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on."

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

"Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art."

"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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

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

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

"It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale, ... I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step."

"The quality of literature and the depth of performance far surpassed the efforts of most middle school and junior high school performances across the state."

"One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory."

"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."

"That said, our study adds to the existing literature that positive social interactions can buffer the effects of stress on the body and brain."

"It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her."