Quotes about Literary

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Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of — Nancy Mitford, The Blessing
I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature an — Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people — Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husba — David McCullough, John Adams
Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into confor — Jack Kerouac
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the othe — George MacDonald, The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and li — Janet Goodfriend, For the Love of Art
I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be. — Hollace M. Metzger
The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. — Tacita Dean
Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the go — Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear. — Kamand Kojouri
That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a — Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What — Sergio Troncoso
When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, s — Joyce Rachelle
School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make t — Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first read — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
They never opened the door which leads to the soul. — Henry Miller
Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everyth — Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for t — Russell A. Peck, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2