Literature Quotes - Page 122

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

We may divide characters into flat and round.

English literature is a flying fish.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Great questions make great reporting.