Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
‐‐ Isaac D'Israeli
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
Literature is analysis after the event.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
‐‐ Mark Z. Danielewski
Literature is for the sake of humanity.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.
‐‐ Eileen Myles
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
‐‐ Nelson Algren
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
‐‐ David Lodge
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
‐‐ Thomas Edward Brown
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
‐‐ Helen Keller
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum
Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.
‐‐ Helen McCrory
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
‐‐ Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
‐‐ Camilo Jose Cela
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
Literature is the immortality of speech.
‐‐ August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder
Literature is the question minus the answer.
‐‐ Roland Barthes
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
‐‐ Thomas Mann
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
‐‐ Roland Barthes
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
‐‐ Philip Roth
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
‐‐ Jane Smiley
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
‐‐ Lorrie Moore
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
‐‐ Reza Aslan
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
Literature precedes genre.
‐‐ Rick Moody
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
‐‐ John Morley
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
‐‐ Sam Kean
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce