Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.