Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

E. B. White

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

George Ade

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

George Borrow

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Cyril Connolly

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Delmore Schwartz

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

Giles Foden

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Jacqueline Susann

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Joseph Heller

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Nicole Krauss

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Georg Brandes

Gru: This is literature? A two year old could have written this!

Despicable Me

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

Alistair MacLeod

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

Adam Phillips Going Sane

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Sara Sheridan

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

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