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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
To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.
— Bernhard Schlink
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
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
I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?
— Mian Mian
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
— Franz Grillparzer
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
— H.L. Mencken
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
— Thomas Carlyle
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
— Tom Clancy
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
— Paul Auster
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.
— Mark Zero
A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.
— Jack Miles
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
— Thomas Nixon Carver
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
Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain.
— Rabih Alameddine
My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you'll remember; literature that matters.
— M.G. Crisci
It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.
— Tom McCarthy
Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.
— Honore De Balzac
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
— Italo Calvino
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
— Linda Sue Park
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
— Nelson Algren
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Ground) - "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" - has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode
— Christopher Hitchens
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
everything that is scatteredcomes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
— Spencer Silver
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain. — Dejan Stojanovic
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
— Sara Sheridan
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
— Edwidge Danticat
Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.
— Rivera Sun
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
True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
— Marcel Proust
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
— Herman Melville
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
— Lois Lowry
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
— Colum McCann
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
— Stephen Daldry
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
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
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
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 doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
— Delmore Schwartz
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom
— Koji Suzuki
Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?
— Jeanette Winterson
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
— William Faulkner
It seems unlikely that so much literaturecould be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
— Julian Barnes
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
— Becky Watson
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
— Julia Glass
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
— Harper Lee
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 interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
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
That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.
— Sophie Divry
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
— Northrop Frye
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain.
— Ivan Stoikov
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 is only one school of literature - that of talent.
— Vladimir Nabokov
None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
— Ethel Turner
One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
— Marcel Proust
