Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.