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A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you ... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!
— Dr. Seuss
I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
— Anton Chekhov
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
— Zaha Hadid
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.
— Vanessa M Chattman
Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.
— Margaret Atwood
Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it?
— Kristen Ashley
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
— Cyril Connolly
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
— Nick Johnson
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.
— Mark Zero
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
— Kwame Nkrumah
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
— Piers Anthony
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
— E. M. Forster
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
— Thomas Hardy
It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.
— Tom McCarthy
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
— Fran Lebowitz
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
— Roland Barthes
And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.
— Amanda Coplin
I'm sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat.
— M.F. Roberts
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
— Virginia Woolf
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
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
— Sherman Alexie
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
— Meridel Le Sueur
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
— Alice Hoffman
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.
— Megan Frazer Blakemore
There is always the question why And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.
— James Thurber
And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.
— Kanza Javed
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
— John Steinbeck
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.
— Patricia Lockwood
Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.
— George Bernard Shaw
Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
— George Washington
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?
— Rick Yancey
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
— Deborah Harkness
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
— Armand Assante
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
— William Ralph Inge
The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.
— F. Sionil Jose
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
— William Godwin
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic
I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
— Jeanette Winterson
People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.
— Kanza Javed
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
— Francis Bacon
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ...
— George Bernard Shaw
But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.
— John Edward Williams
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
— Delmore Schwartz
