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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
- Andre Breton
Collection: Literature

Im always trolling for trivia.
- Lynn Abbey
Collection: Literature

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
- Bruce Sterling
Collection: Literature

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Collection: Literature

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
- Francine Prose
Collection: Literature

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
- Kenneth Patchen
Collection: Literature

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
- Jessica Savitch
Collection: Literature

All that is literature seeks to communicate power
- Thomas de Quincey
Collection: Literature

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
- Gene Wolfe
Collection: Literature

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
- Mickey Spillane
Collection: Literature

You are no better than you should be.
- Francis Beaumont
Collection: Literature

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.
- Colin Wilson
Collection: Literature

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
- Kenneth Oppel
Collection: Literature

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
- Lionel Trilling
Collection: Literature

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Collection: Literature

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.
- Stef Penney
Collection: Literature

All literature is protest.
- Richard Wright
Collection: Literature

Your reader is at least as bright as you are
- William Maxwell
Collection: Literature

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
- Philip Sington
Collection: Literature

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
- Irwin Shaw
Collection: Literature

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
- Irwin Shaw
Collection: Literature

Literature is not an instruction manual.
- Charles Baxter
Collection: Literature

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
- Aubrey Beardsley
Collection: Literature

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
- Julia Alvarez
Collection: Literature

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
- Mark Van Doren
Collection: Literature

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.
- Leonard Michaels
Collection: Literature

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Collection: Literature

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
- Mary Augusta Ward
Collection: Literature

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Literature

I never really separated painting and literature.
- Cy Twombly
Collection: Literature

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
- Amelia B. Edwards
Collection: Literature

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
- Molly Haskell
Collection: Literature

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?
- Alfred Kazin
Collection: Literature

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.
- Sjon
Collection: Literature

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
- Guo Moruo
Collection: Literature

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.
- Isaac D'Israeli
Collection: Literature

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.
- Edwin Louis Cole
Collection: Literature

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
- Charles Clarke
Collection: Literature

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
- Anne Stevenson
Collection: Literature

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
- Michael Cunningham
Collection: Literature

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Literature

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.
- Porochista Khakpour
Collection: Literature

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.
- Sam Tanenhaus
Collection: Literature

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
- Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Collection: Literature

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
- Dana Gioia
Collection: Literature

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought
- Bernard Bailyn
Collection: Literature

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?
- Jeff VanderMeer
Collection: Literature

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
- Louis Dudek
Collection: Literature

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
- Roberto Calasso
Collection: Literature

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
Collection: Literature

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