Quotes of: Literature Keyword

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

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Anne Stevenson

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Jane Levy

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Andre Breton

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Azar Nafisi

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Anthony Powell

Literature is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments.

Life

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Victoria Clayton

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Witold Gombrowicz

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

William Stafford

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.

Christopher Unborn

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

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