Literature Quotes

• True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • True
  • Trustworthy
  • Functionaries

• Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • World
  • Good
  • Body

• Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the practice of democracy in the United States, it would not be an error to point out that the ideas they championed did impact America's understanding, and subsequently its application, of democracy.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Music
  • Art
  • America

• Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Awareness
  • Judgement

• I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • People
  • Writing
  • American

• We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Literature
  • Voice
  • Competition

• I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Literature

• The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.

  

  Vance Palmer
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Literature

• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Knowledge
  • Literature
  • Chess

• Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading
  • Literature

• All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

  

  Jane Levy
  • People
  • World
  • Literature

• If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • American
  • Literature
  • Witch

• Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Culture
  • Literature

• Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • American
  • Literature
  • Hero

• A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Inquiring

• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Tired

• I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

  

  Anne Fortier
  • Bad
  • Death
  • Success

• Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

  

  David Lodge
  • Life
  • Children
  • Sex

• 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
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Literature

• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Night
  • Reading
  • Spiritual

• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Literature
  • Hands
  • Doe

• In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Courage
  • Literature
  • Greek

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