Literature Quotes

• Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Literature

• All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.

  

  Jefferson Mays
  • World
  • Children
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Jefferson Mays
  • Children
  • Mother
  • English

• I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.

  

  John Cusack
  • Great
  • Explore
  • Godfather

• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Control
  • Moral
  • Politics

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Literature

• Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • People
  • Literature

• I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Wish
  • Littles
  • Sales

• There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Film
  • Source
  • Educational

• ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Understanding
  • Depends
  • Depth

• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  

  Daniel Goldstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • World
  • Popular
  • Criticism

• What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

  

  James Wolcott
  • American
  • Author
  • Autumn

• In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Shadow

• So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Small
  • Joy
  • Focus

• American literature has always been immigrant.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Always
  • Literature

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Reading
  • Practice
  • Process

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