Literature Quotes

• 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

• I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

  

  James Herbert
  • High
  • Literature

• I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Realism
  • Vulgar

• We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Literature
  • Eternity

• Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Enough

• 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
  • Past
  • Literature

• I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Romance
  • Dramatic

• I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Why

• For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Virtue
  • Promoters
  • Handmaids

• I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Different
  • Children
  • Book

• Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Literature

• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Accounts
  • Seven
  • Biographies

• 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

• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Literature

• Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Writing
  • Literature

• In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Literature

• The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

  

  Kim Jong Il
  • Important
  • Art
  • Literature

• I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.

  

  John Cornwell
  • Why
  • Book
  • Perseverance

• Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

  

  John Morley
  • Literature
  • Seductive

• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Education
  • Reading
  • English

• For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Power
  • Literature

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