Literature Quotes

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

~ Yahoo Serious

I studied literature design and fashion design.

~ Danielle Steel

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

~ Nick Harkaway

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

~ Tom Baker

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

~ Shia Labeouf

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

~ Andrew Bird

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

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

~ Mao Zedong

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

~ Irvine Welsh

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

~ André Maurois

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

~ Seamus Heaney

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

~ Juan Ramón Jiménez

The crown of literature is poetry.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

~ Rita Dove

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

~ Khaled Hosseini

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

~ George Ripley

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~ Virginia Woolf

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

~ Lionel Trilling