Quotes about Literature

129 quotes about Literature

Literature is the art of writing something that will be...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; the journalism is art of what is read once.

Quote by Cyril Vernon Connolly about literature

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds...

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds of all the poets now writing dropped dead suddenly, the loss to literature wold not be great.

Quote by Charles Osburne about literature

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Quote by Harold Bloom about literature

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about literature

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Quote by Kathy Acker about literature

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about literature

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Quote by Armand Assante about literature

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Quote by Jane Austen about literature

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the...

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature

It's OK for us to have all these movies where people's...

It's OK for us to have all these movies where people's heads are cut off, and then you can't see a movie based on classic literature?

Quote by Melanie Griffith about literature

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Quote by Mick Jagger about literature

More than art, more than literature, music is universally...

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Quote by Billy Joel about literature

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, ...

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Quote by Ken Olsen about literature

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it...

Quote by James Payn about literature

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is...

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Quote by James Payn about literature

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences, while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Quote by James Payn about literature

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