All Quotes

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