Literature Quotes
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
Northrop Frye
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I read Russian literature a lot.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
Russell Baker
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Ray Bradbury
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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
Northrop Frye
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Northrop Frye
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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
Henry Louis Gates
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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
Carolyn Wells
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Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
