It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

P. T. Barnum

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There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P. G. Wodehouse

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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Irvine Welsh

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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Ingmar Bergman

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

J. M. Coetzee

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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

J. M. Coetzee

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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Elizabeth Olsen

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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Jack Kirby

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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Italo Calvino

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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

R. L. Stine

Before Believe Day Every

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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

R. L. Stine

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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Rita Mae Brown

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Jordan Peterson

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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove

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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Jacques Derrida

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Roland Barthes

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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

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You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

James McBride

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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Timothy Findley

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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity

Bernard Berenson

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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Alison Lurie

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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Alison Lurie

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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Anatole Broyard

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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

One Paradoxes American Litrature

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In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Andrew Lang

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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Anthony Powell

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Through it,literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Through it Literature We know The past

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion Human Make up Our cultural

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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and since there is no other metaphor,also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Literature Not scripture Sustains The mind

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Cyril Connolly

Literature Art Writing Read

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Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Stephen Fry

Literature Only access The truth This planet

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Demand your school board change curriculum to include Black history/literature/culture.

Amanda Litman

Demand School board Change curriculum Black history

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Study literature, sociology and philosophy. Theyâ€™ll be more important than film school.

Chris Ihidero

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Inge

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Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

P. T. Barnum

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P. G. Wodehouse

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

P. G. Wodehouse

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Irvine Welsh

I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Ingmar Bergman

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

J. M. Coetzee

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

J. M. Coetzee

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Elizabeth Olsen

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Jack Kirby

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Italo Calvino

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

R. L. Stine

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

R. L. Stine

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Rita Mae Brown

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Jordan Peterson

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Jacques Derrida

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Roland Barthes

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

You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

James McBride

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Timothy Findley

Bernard Berenson

In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Alison Lurie

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Alison Lurie

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Anatole Broyard

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

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.