Famous Quotes
249 Quotations with Literature.
- 61. Marilyn Butler: English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to ...
- 62. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotati ...
- 63. Aldous Huxley: Every man's memory is his private literature.
- 64. J. G. Ballard: Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible ...
- 65. Arthur Rimbaud: For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous ...
- 66. Oscar Wilde: From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspir ...
- 67. Ernest Hemingway: God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional crit ...
- 68. P. D. James: Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we a ...
- 69. Ezra Pound: Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible ...
- 70. Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlanti ...
- 71. Wallace Stevens: How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has ...
- 72. Ernest Hemingway: How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write ...
- 73. Charles Dickens: I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could ...
- 74. Groucho Marx: I did toy with the idea of doing a cookbook. The recipes were to be the routine ...
- 75. Oscar Wilde: I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade shou ...
- 76. George Eliot: I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure ...
- 77. Marguerite Duras: I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism ca ...
- 78. Ezra Pound: If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
- 79. Don DeLillo: If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberati ...
- 80. Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's troubl ...