Literature Quotes

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Where should one turn for guidance in an appraisal of of the essence of justice, morality, ethics, religion, science, literaturem, and the like? Not to the past, for history is willfully misinterpreted; and not to the church, which is ineffective because of the cowardice of its leaders. Even science cannot be helpful beccause its exponents have succeeded only in destroying the harmony of life. It is therefore the duty of literature to rediscover the truth and beauty of life that other means have failed to find.

~ Hymen Chonon Berkowitz

The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The love for literature is the key to knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature is a sacred knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The love for literature is a great light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The longer the wondering, the longer the writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

~ G. Willow Wilson

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

~ George Gordon Byron

Create a world for yourself in which you can rest,until then stay restless.

~ Akash Lakhotia

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses? They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

~ Helen Keller

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

~ Helen Keller

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

~ Nadeem Aslam

It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have never doubted and never will doubt that courage is splendid, that fidelity is noble, that distressed ladies should be rescued, and vanquished enemies spared. There are a large number of cultivated persons who doubt these maxims of daily life.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially successful screenplays share, he has codified a language that has been adopted by creative executives in both film and television. So there might be something of tangible value to be gained by interacting with his material, either in book form or at one of the seminars.But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar is no seminar at all.To me, the writer wants to get as many outside voices OUT of his/her head as possible. Experts win by getting us to be dependent on their view of the world. They win when they get to frame the discussion, when they get to tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to think about the game, whatever the game is. Because that makes you dependent on them. If they have the secret rules, then you need them if you want toget ahead.The truth is, you do

~ Brian Koppelman

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

~ Harold Bloom

The worth of a book is infinite.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature gives great light and great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature is light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without books, the world will be void.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

~ Philip Zaleski

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My life transformed by making myself a reader.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the spirit of the poets that gives the soldiers strength to fight.

~ Casting Crowns

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a rich literature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books is heavenly paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read good books to improve your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. We write in everyday existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How would you document the history of today?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.

~ Bell Hooks