Literature Quotes - Page 140

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".