Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

Chloe Thurlow

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

Gretchen Rubin

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Chad Harbach

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Irving Langmuir

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Henry Lewes

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

John Hurt

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Michael Moore

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

Koren Zailckas

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stephan Jenkins

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Victoria Wood

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Anthony Horowitz

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Alfred North Whitehead

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

T. S. Eliot