Literature Quotes - page 4

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc. (Annie Besant)
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. View quote
André Gide
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. View quote
Anatole Broyard
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and-since there is no other metaphor-also the soul. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. View quote
Eric Bogosian
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. View quote
Wendell Phillips
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. View quote
Toni Morrison
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ''literature'' is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche. (Toni Morrison)
Every man's memory is his private literature. View quote
Aldous Huxley
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. View quote
Hugh Blair
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. View quote
Sidney Hook
A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process. View quote
Abel Ferrara
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. View quote
Manuel Puig
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. View quote
Manuel Puig
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. (Manuel Puig)
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. View quote
Tadao Ando
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. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. View quote
Charles Williams