Quotes of: Literature Keyword

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Christian Bauman

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.

Gary Oldman

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Gene Wolfe

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Harold Bloom

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Henry James

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Haruki Murakami

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

James Payn

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Jules Renard

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Julien Torma

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

David Mitchell

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

David O. McKay

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

James Branch Cabell

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

Joseph Campbell

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Jasper Fforde

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

Gil: I'm having trouble because I'm a Hollywood hack who never gave real literature a shot.

Midnight in Paris