Quotes about Literature, page 2

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read, he was my personal mentor.

Quote by Shimon Peres about literature

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Quote by Shimon Peres about literature

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about literature

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and irony.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about literature

A writer has a start, without any doubt, which begins every day.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about literature

If you want to become a writer, dear reader, open the core and pull out from inkholder the universe.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about literature

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about literature

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about literature

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Quote by Robert Frost about literature

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Quote by Karl Kraus about literature