Literature Quotes - Page 120

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

The little man is still a man.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.