All Quotes

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