Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Carlos Fuentes

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Hayley Atwell

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

David Augsburger

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Jean Douchet

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

James Herbert

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Dario Fo

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

Linda Sue Park

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Paul de Man

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Antonin Artaud

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

Andrew Wylie

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Life

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Life

The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

Vera B. Williams

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Werner Herzog