Famous Quotes
249 Quotations with Literature.
- 101. Ezra Pound: Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social fu ...
- 102. Paul De Man: Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betr ...
- 103. Dean William R. Inge: Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
- 104. Cesare Pavese: Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't ...
- 105. D. H. Lawrence: Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
- 106. Doris Lessing: Literature is analysis after the event.
- 107. Nelson Algren: Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal appara ...
- 108. David Lodge: Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life i ...
- 109. Jorge Luis Borges: Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a singl ...
- 110. Cyril Connolly: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism w ...
- 111. Octavio Paz: Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a s ...
- 112. Lionel Trilling: Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account ...
- 113. August Wilhelm Von Schlegel: Literature is the immortality of speech.
- 114. Thornton Wilder: Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- 115. Salman Rushdie: Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human socie ...
- 116. Roland Barthes: Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prov ...
- 117. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down ...
- 118. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transm ...
- 119. Terry Eagleton: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically ...
- 120. Henry Giles: Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily fou ...