Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Stephen Daldry

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

E. B. White

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

George Ade

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

George Borrow

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Cyril Connolly

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Delmore Schwartz

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Jacqueline Susann

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Joseph Heller

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Nicole Krauss

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Georg Brandes

Gru: This is literature? A two year old could have written this!

Despicable Me

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley