Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Graham Joyce

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

Jonathan Kozol

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.

Jesse Harris

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

F. Sionil Jose

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Patrick White

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Nelson Algren

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Howard Nemerov

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Elaine Pagels

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

Colum McCann

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Himmilicious

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Jorge Luis Borges

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

David Strathairn

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire