Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.
David Lodge
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Harold Bloom
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
David C. Mccullough
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
Salman Rushdie
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling
Literature bores me, especially great literature.
John Berryman
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
Frederick Crews
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Stephen Stills
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
John Gregory Dunne
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
John Cheever
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Josef Skvorecky
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Camilo Jose Cela
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes
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
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor
Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
These findings are consistent with an emerging literature on the beneficial impact of faith and spirituality on health.
Carissa Low
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
Robert Gould Shaw
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Sidney Hook
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Lynd
The thing about this festival that I love is that it brings people from all walks of life together for a common humanity and that's literature.
Andrew Carroll
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Stephan Jenkins
I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
Scott Turow
He said he didn't have to, that he was just telling the truth. When I read the literature, I didn't feel that was what he was doing.
Madeline Schmidt
Based on everything in the literature, this kind of program is the least-expensive and most cost-effective for taxpayers and has the greatest chance of working.
Doug Hughes
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We don't agree that there is widespread literature of that kind in mosques in America.
Ibrahim Hooper
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other people's eyes. All good books do this.
Sandra Cisneros
You don't have to be a fish to study underwater archeology or to swim. You don't have to be Jewish to be interested in Jewish literature.
Charles Isbell
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Northrop Frye
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley
It's a wonderful piece of classic literature. It not only has a cast of thousands, it also has a typhoon and a flying balloon.
Richard Hopkins
She touted [the convention] in her campaign literature until she lost — badly.
Bob Ferguson
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir Nabokov
They say in all the literature Saratoga is a wonderful place. It's true. It's not hard to sell something so wonderful.
Greg Dixon
We don't have good evidence, good research and good literature that supports some of these time frames, ... So they're a best guess at this point.
Brian Postl
I doubt it because we're going to be very clear in our literature for our applications.
Jane Gantz
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Ravi Shankar
Everybody in the world should have comprehensive access to all the literature.
Michael Eisen
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Kate Mulgrew
His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you?'
Siegfried Sassoon
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Tristan Tzara
We've been able to solve a lot of these problems by going back to the literature.
James Salge
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Walter Gilbert
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Italo Calvino
It's an extraordinarily compelling page turner that also happens to be a major work of literature.
Jonathan Burnham
We don't allow anyone permission to just come in and drop off literature. You can't just do this willy-nilly.
Colin Riley
We'll definitely be using it in campaign literature.
Oscar Sanchez
...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination.
H. P. Lovecraft
There are so many books, once banned, that are foundations of English literature, so it was very important to gain awareness of this threat to English literature.
Courtney Lewis
They know where the people are. But what are they doing for the people they're handing the literature to?
Gene Russianoff
This list and the films on it are meant to be scrutinized and criticized, dissected and collected, viewed and reviewed. They are the literature of our industry and the legacy of our union.
Patric M. Verrone
Newer teachers also have a broader perspective on literature.
Larry Johannessen
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Roy Blount Jr.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois
All the arguments inserted in the standards are only found in the literature of intelligent design. Teaching the criticisms is teaching ID.
Jack Krebs
This anthology in essence has established the canon of African-American literature, and it will continue to do so for at least the next quarter century.
Craig Werner
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
Paul Thomson
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
Salman Rushdie
Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
I tend to agree with him that it doesn't have anything to do with literature.
Matthew Knowles
For our particular purposes, one of the things they get to do is study great literature in depth.
Carl Moore
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235.
Joseph Farrell
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair
Because the historical literature talks about his clumsy gait . . . it raises the possibility that that was caused by a mutation in this gene.
Laura Ranum
We're confident this is genuine ancient Christian literature.
Bart Ehrman
Unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.
Ruth Rendell
We walked the halls of the legislative office building in Albany with a shopping cart, ... We stopped at every office with our literature.
Gregory Mills
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
Jim Morrison
We are confident this is a piece of genuine, Christian apocryphal literature. This is the most significant discovery in the last 60 years.
Terry Garcia
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
Nero Wolfe
In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature.
Gao Xingjian
The literature at the top says Reader's Digest but it is not. If you look at the literature, it says USA Direct Inc. What they do is say you have won and of course everyone knows Reader's Digest so they assume it's legitimate.
Jeannie Hoskins
It's a lot to read to keep up. She gives you a lot of literature that you keep and I know that I will be using it a lot.
Concepcion Ehrlich
After going through all this literature, we realized someone just needed to compile and analyze it all.
Loren Rieseberg
American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its immigrant authors.
Alvin Rosenfeld
I don't feel like I have to conform to some idea of what black literature is. I think of my ideas and I try to execute them well.
Colson Whitehead
The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
Gerald Brenan
There a lot of interest in Civil War era books and literature, and this is going to be a successful showing.
Matthew Onion
Hemingway's short fiction is what changed American literature.
Michael Reynolds
My interest in literature hasn't decreased. It just gets more passionate, actually.
William Maxwell
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky
We're able to cover history, geography, science, math, literature, phy. ed. and music.
Connie Baker
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J. G. Ballard
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
This book has been called indisputably the most important book in English literature and the most important secular book of all time.
Peter Selley
The literature suggests that acupuncture may be helpful for certain kinds of pain for control of certain kinds of nausea.
David Eisenberg
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Elizabeth George
It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.
Elfriede Jelinek
Unfortunately, the literature provides little guidance on which interventions, and under which circumstances, best reduce language barriers.
Elizabeth Jacobs
That said, our study adds to the existing literature that positive social interactions can buffer the effects of stress on the body and brain.
Elizabeth Gould
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