Literally, my job is I make socks. That's all I do.
‐‐ Rob Kardashian
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam
Literally since I could walk... I was performing.
‐‐ Lyndsy Fonseca
Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that happened like a Big Bang but based on vessels and light.
‐‐ Matisyahu
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
‐‐ Mary Roach
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
‐‐ Zara Larsson
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
‐‐ Robertson Davies
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
‐‐ Dean Koontz
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
‐‐ Dave Morris
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.
‐‐ Michael Dirda
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard
Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
‐‐ Paul Theroux
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.
‐‐ George W. S. Trow
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
‐‐ Lynn Coady
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
‐‐ Damon Galgut
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
‐‐ Herbert Gold
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
‐‐ Ezra Pound
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
‐‐ Paul de Man
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
‐‐ Natalie Merchant
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
‐‐ Elliot Ackerman
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
‐‐ Richard Ford
Literature has become my life.
‐‐ Mikhail Bulgakov
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
‐‐ John Cheever
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
‐‐ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
‐‐ Leland Ryken
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
‐‐ Juan Ramon Jimenez
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
‐‐ Peter Bichsel
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
‐‐ Armand Assante