Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P.G. Wodehouse

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Robert Hass

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Shia LaBeouf

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

Tayari Jones

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Tucker Max

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Mark Twain

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Lafcadio Hearn

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

E. L. Doctorow

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Ma Jian

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

T. S. Eliot