Literature Quotes
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Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
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What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
