Literature Quotes - Page 2

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Imagination, Spirit

  The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

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• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  Iris Murdoch

  Technique, Emotion, Said

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• Every man's memory is his private literature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Memories, Men, Every Man

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• Remarks are not literature.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Remarks

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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• Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Adults, Appeals

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• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Bones, Prey

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

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• Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

  Thomas Huxley

  Money, Book, Reading

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

  George Orwell

  Atmosphere, Orthodoxy, Form

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Clients, Dresses, Needs

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• All literature is political.

  LeVar Burton

  Creativity, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• All literature is gossip.

  Truman Capote

  Gossip

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.337, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Literature is news that stays news.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Inspiration, Reading

  The ABC of Reading ch. 2 (1934)

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• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Rose, Thorns

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

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• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

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• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  Ezra Pound

  Decay, Rehabilitation, Decline

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Art, Business, Today

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• Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Education, Cold, Professors

  Nobel Prize address, Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1930

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• Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

  Jules Renard

  Success, Writing, People

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.286, Tin House Books

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• Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Men, Praise

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  E. M. Forster

  Reading, Men, Wonderful

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

  Susan Sontag

  Muse, Modern, Perversity

  1966 Against Interpretation,'Camus' Notebooks'.

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Friendship, Beautiful, Reading

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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