Literature Quotes - Page 151

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

By all means use some time to be alone.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.