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Tag Name "Literature" (1698)

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Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
David Daiches
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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
Mason Cooley
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
Antonio Tabucchi
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
Arnold Bennett
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
Terry Eagleton
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
Terry Eagleton
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Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Bertrand Russell
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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
Timothy Findley
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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
John Darnielle
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
John Henry Newman
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Literature is humanity talking to itself.
Norman Rush
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Nathalie Sarraute
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
George Steiner
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Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
Northrop Frye
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
Nellie L. McClung
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