Quotes of: Literature Keyword

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.

Emma Donoghue

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Richard Dawkins

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Lafcadio Hearn

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

Amber Benson

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literatu...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

Francis Ford Coppola

Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire people to act on them as though they mattered mor...

Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This ...

Marjorie Garber

Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult...

Eric Bentley

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

The History Boys

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Soul Music

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

The Wolf Gift

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Russell Kirk