Quotes of: Literature Keyword

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The Uses of Literature

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

... misfortune and creativity go together.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Nathaniel Rich

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

Semen Frank

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Shimon Peres

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

Tom McCarthy

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Kevin J. Anderson

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.

Linda Bender

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Lois Lowry

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Leo Tolstoy

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

Marek Hlasko

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Nick Johnson

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

F. Sionil Jose

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