Literature Quotes

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

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

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

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

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

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.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.