Literature Quotes - Page 125

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

That complete statement which is literature.

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.