Literature Quotes

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel. Herta Muller
Property Book Nothing Think Other Everyone Our Inside Stays Individually Feel Heads Return Than Personal Expects Literature Which Us Speaks
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery. Herta Muller
Whatever Skin Road Almost Like Read Devoured Became Discovery Literature Which
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. Herta Muller
Believe Has-Been Always Been Person Goes Precisely Done Where Literature Damage
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek. Heywood Broun
Words Proletarian See Some Percentage Maiden Between Cheek Blush Literature Which Connection Necessary Bring Set
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition. Heywood Broun
Life People Way Carry Must Composition Scars Through Come Inevitably Up Literature Them Hard Who Hard Way
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket? Howard Jacobson
Art Power Doubt Back Carrying Pocket No-One Come How Been His Person Literature Mugged Ever Copy
Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on. Howard Jacobson
Joke Worried Though Possible Tells Brother About More Could He Him Without Always Than Expecting Anxious Often Impulses Story Literature Act
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like the very devil. What's at issue is how we describe the way the civilising works. Howard Jacobson
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We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day. Howard Nemerov
Love Time Day You Every Day Every Literature Teach
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. Hugh Blair
Great Bible Style Purity Literature Standard
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature. Ian Rankin
Family Class Thought Parents First Economics Books Only Got Am Doing Dentistry Going Being The Only Thing Literature Interested Then Working Working-Class Why Thing
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. Idina Menzel
Theatre Better Wish Think Would Rather More Had Read Am Been Than Trying Artist Literature Now Play
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over. Imre Kertesz
You Black Sense Must About Only Write Cheap Over Excuse Know Least Still Auschwitz Begins Suspended Literature Which Certain Should Serial Novel Expression
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Iris Murdoch
Emotions Could Sort Disciplined Said Literature Certain Technique
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. Irvine Welsh
Sad Society London Similar Highbrow Attempt Stuff Edinburgh Celebrity Happening Literature Create Now
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. Irvine Welsh
You People Other Books Diverse General More Come Read Cliche Readership Readings Said Scotland Get Any Quite Different Literature Interested Really Who Element
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. Ismail Kadare
Great Freedom Relation Chaotic Tyrant Absolute Absolute Freedom Had Mythology Like Always Imposed Tragic Greeks Order Literature Universal
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. Ismail Kadare
Natural Enemy Dictatorship Writer Authentic Literature Incompatible
I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime. Ismail Kadare
Theatre Writing Political Become Think Ancient Would More Moreover Writer Writers True Concerned Opinion Am Greek Than Any As Far As Literature Regime Far Actually
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature. Italo Calvino
Will Beginning Facts Never Contemporary Occupy End Stories Literature Place Full Reason
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. J. G. Ballard
Future Alone Believe Other Possible Would Find All Writers Vocabulary Something Writers Ideas Deal Inevitably Were Existing Very Close Scrap Fiction Form Literature Themselves Producing Whole Present Images
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science. J. G. Ballard
Great Science Think Through River Part Well Science Fiction Years Modern Being Fiction Modern Science Literature English English Literature Imaginative
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. J. M. Coetzee
Life Word Thought Virtue Our Moral Someone Could Writer Days Institutional Conception Well Occupation Sage Still His Times Offer Prize Authoritative Literature Who Her Belongs
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison. J. M. Coetzee
You People Prison Kind Would Exactly Write South South African Expect African Literature Bondage
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French. J. M. G. Le Clezio
School First Write Contact French Up Child Grew Literature Public Mean Speaking Reason Public School Why
You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature. J. Smith-Cameron
Politics Music You Culture Disagree Country Big Down Our Sections Out True Cuisine Gotten Go South Quirky Literature Little Even Appreciate
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