Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Oscar Wilde

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

P. T. Barnum

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Rita Mae Brown

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

Stefanos Livos

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Thomas Kinkade

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

Mohsin Hamid

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

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