Literature Quotes

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

The crown of literature is poetry.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I read Russian literature a lot.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

My master's degree was in English literature.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Literature has become my life.

All literature is political.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

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

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.