Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Gilbert Murray

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Karen Thompson Walker

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Lev Grossman

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Ruth Ozeki

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

Wilbur Smith

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Emma Bonino

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.

Jesse Harris

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

F. Sionil Jose

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Patrick White

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Nelson Algren

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Howard Nemerov

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Elaine Pagels

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

Colum McCann

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Himmilicious

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Jorge Luis Borges