Literature Quotes
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
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My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.
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Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
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A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured.
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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
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Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
