Literature Quotes
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
Arundhati Roy
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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
David Augsburger
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If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
Amish Tripathi
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
J. G. Ballard
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
Utada Hikaru
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
A. S. Byatt
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
Bill Bennett
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
Rabih Alameddine
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Delmore Schwartz
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
Max Apple
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
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first couplet of Max Ernst's poem 'Etna', in: 'Literature', Paris, October 15, 1923; as quoted in Max Ernst sculpture, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Edizioni Charta, Milano, 1969, p. 15
Max Ernst