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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
- Romain Gary
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Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
- Marcel Theroux
Collection: Literature

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
- Diane Wakoski
Collection: Literature

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
- Julien Torma
Collection: Literature

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.
- Julien Torma
Collection: Literature

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
- Ellen Glasgow
Collection: Literature

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
- JJ Feild
Collection: Literature

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.
- Leland Ryken
Collection: Literature

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
- Carlos Fuentes
Collection: Literature

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
- David Swing
Collection: Literature

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.
- Francois Duvalier
Collection: Literature

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
- Christopher Bollen
Collection: Literature

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
- Kam Williams
Collection: Literature

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Collection: Literature

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
- Erica Brown
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The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
- Roy Bedichek
Collection: Literature

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
- Jessa Crispin
Collection: Literature

Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language.
- Gwenno
Collection: Literature

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
- Marthe Bibesco
Collection: Literature

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.
- David Bennun
Collection: Literature

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.
- Jim Lehrer
Collection: Literature

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.
- Hershel Shanks
Collection: Literature

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
- Amy Lowell
Collection: Literature

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
- Mary MacLane
Collection: Literature

Comics are a gateway into literature.
- Francoise Mouly
Collection: Literature

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.
- Edward Einhorn
Collection: Literature

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.
- Sasa Stanisic
Collection: Literature

Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?
- Liao Yiwu
Collection: Literature

To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers have to take a stance on it.
- Liao Yiwu
Collection: Literature

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.
- Chath Piersath
Collection: Literature

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
- Aisha Hinds
Collection: Literature

Remarks aren't literature.
- Gertrude Stein
Collection: Literature

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
- Madame de Stael
Collection: Literature

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
- Vera Nazarian
Collection: Literature

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
- Philip Roth
Collection: Literature

Leave the rest to the gods.
- Horace
Collection: Literature

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.
- John Dos Passos
Collection: Literature

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Literature

Labor diligently to increase your property.
- Horace
Collection: Literature

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Literature

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
- Samuel Beckett
Collection: Literature

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
- Moliere
Collection: Literature

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
- Michael Ondaatje
Collection: Literature

Literature usually begets literature.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Literature

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Literature

Death swallows death.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Collection: Literature

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Literature

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
- Wallace Stevens
Collection: Literature

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