727 Literature Quotes for You to Enjoy

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. Franz Grillparzer

Life Work Mirror Looking Monkey Vain Poetry True Looks Said Loudly Often Literature Socrates

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. Freeman Dyson

Together Science World Language Club Member Both Tie Accepted Been Common Nationality Being Literature Race Mankind Much Doubly Across International Barriers Helping Lucky Each

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. Gaby Hoffmann

Writing School Thought College High High School About Never Knew Study Always Go Walking Graduated Just Wanted Literature Away

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way. Gaby Hoffmann

Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas. Gad Saad

To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement. Gail Carriger

Love Me Together Spring Think Both Because Gothic Movement Literature Urban Victorian Fantasy Naturally Things Early

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian

Life Truth You Mask Tell True True Life Fiction Literature Found

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics. Gao Xingjian

Politics Above Higher Than Literature Actually

There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books. Garth Nix

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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. Garth Risk Hallberg

Thought Cities Had Major Bug Literature Paintings Things

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. George Ade

Rugged More Only Attempt Mortals Up Current Literature Should Keep

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

You Losing Assure Trade Sir Literature

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. George Edward Woodberry

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. George Henry Lewes

Object Animate Literature Amuse

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. George Henry Lewes

Experience Real Personal Personal Experience Literature Basis

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. George Orwell

Atmosphere Above Prose Most Always Literature Forms Novel Orthodoxy Damaging

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker

Drama Dramatic Pleases Characterization Attains Reach Makes Revelation Dialogue Conduct Itself Human Literature Which Play

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker

Playwright Dramatic Pleasure Adequate Characterization Memorable Impersonate Instinct Dialogue Provide Itself Literature Produces Actor Desire

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. George Saunders

Life Truth Good You People Other Saves Unlike Machine Says Favor Systems Kind Bad Sloth Bet Cruel Knowing Another Answers Eradicate Yes Fiction Literature Us

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. Gertrude Stein

Creative Sex Unconcerned Literature Inconceivable

Hemingway's remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein

Remarks Literature Hemingway

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. Gilbert Murray

Great Reading Few Ancient Easy Easy Reading Greek Literature Works

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. Gillian Flynn

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