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Image of Fernando Pessoa
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
- Fernando Pessoa
Collection: Literature
Image of Gore Vidal
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Literature
Image of Sean O'Casey
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
- Sean O'Casey
Collection: Literature
Image of George Bernard Shaw
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Literature
Image of Renata Adler
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
- Renata Adler
Collection: Literature
Image of Amos Oz
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
- Amos Oz
Collection: Literature
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Literature
Image of Horace
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
- Horace
Collection: Literature
Image of John Steinbeck
Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Literature
Image of Toni Morrison
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Literature
Image of Susan Sontag
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Literature
Image of Wallace Stevens
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
- Wallace Stevens
Collection: Literature
Image of Horace
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
- Horace
Collection: Literature
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Literature
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Literature
Image of Charles Baxter
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
- Charles Baxter
Collection: Literature
Image of Tobias Smollett
The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
- Tobias Smollett
Collection: Literature
Image of Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Collection: Literature
Image of Barry Sanders
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
- Barry Sanders
Collection: Literature
Image of Anne Tyler
When I read, I'm purely a reader
- Anne Tyler
Collection: Literature
Image of William Stafford
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
- William Stafford
Collection: Literature
Image of Aeschylus
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Literature
Image of Oprah Winfrey
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Collection: Literature
Image of Horace
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
- Horace
Collection: Literature
Image of Mark Twain
In literature imitations do not imitate.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Literature
Image of Virginia Woolf
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Literature
Image of Donald Miller
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.
- Donald Miller
Collection: Literature
Image of Henry David Thoreau
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Literature
Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: Literature
Image of Yevgeny Zamyatin
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Collection: Literature
Image of Walter Benjamin
Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
- Walter Benjamin
Collection: Literature
Image of Gore Vidal
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Literature
Image of Virginia Woolf
That complete statement which is literature.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Literature
Image of Virginia Woolf
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Literature
Image of Aeschylus
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Literature
Image of Robert Bringhurst
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.
- Robert Bringhurst
Collection: Literature
Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Collection: Literature
Image of Gao Xingjian
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.
- Gao Xingjian
Collection: Literature
Image of Gao Xingjian
Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
- Gao Xingjian
Collection: Literature
Image of Susan Sontag
Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Literature
Image of Seneca the Younger
Life without literary studies is death.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Literature
Image of Amos Oz
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
- Amos Oz
Collection: Literature
Image of Thomas Bernhard
I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.
- Thomas Bernhard
Collection: Literature
Image of Susan Sontag
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Literature
Image of Virginia Woolf
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Literature
Image of Mark Twain
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Literature
Image of Cheryl Strayed
I really came to literature through poetry.
- Cheryl Strayed
Collection: Literature
Image of Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.
- Marcel Proust
Collection: Literature
Image of Orhan Pamuk
Painting taught literature to describe.
- Orhan Pamuk
Collection: Literature