Literature Quotes - Page 123

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

We are all born marked for evil.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

What is there that money will not do?

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.