Literature Quotes - Page 135

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own