Quotes of: Literature Keyword

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Martin Amis

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Robert Southey

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.

Marty Rubin

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Ben Okri

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

Stephen Daldry

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

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