Literature Quotes - Page 113

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

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

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

You should have died when I killed you.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.