Quotes of: Literature Keyword

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Samuel Lover

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Lucille Clifton

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Lemony Snicket

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

Basmah bint Saud

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Gilbert Murray

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

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