Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.
Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.