Literature Quotes

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Roger Ebert

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Dejan Stojanovic

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Dejan Stojanovic

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Dejan Stojanovic

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106)

William Shakespeare

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

Dejan Stojanovic

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Stephen Fry

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.

Northrop Frye