Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Mo Yan

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Trevor Nunn

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Richard Flanagan

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.

Ted Rall

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Camilo Jose Cela

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Naguib Mahfouz

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Yahoo Serious

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, M...

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Burst pipes were an English tradition, like so many others. Like, for instance, English men. Charm the knickers off you with their mellow vowels and frivolous verbiage, and then, once they'd got them off, panic and run. Or else stay and whinge. The E...

Margaret Atwood

English Bob: [discussing the assassination of President Garfield] Well there's a dignity royalty. A majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shakes as though palsied. ...

Unforgiven