Literature Quotes
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
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It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Literature is the expression of society.
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
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I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
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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.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
