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Literature Quotes (page 21)

Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air..."
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jane Austen quote: "A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to..."
A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. Flannery O'Connor
They should have a store next to the bookstore called the shit store where you can get shit books to read while on the shitter. No one reads great literature on the shitter. Lewis Black
Gene Wolfe quote: "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by..."
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. Gene Wolfe
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. Roger Ebert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in..."
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Gustave Flaubert
Julio Cortazar quote: "Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a..."
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature Julio Cortazar
Franz Kafka quote: "All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be..."
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else. Franz Kafka
Alphonse de Lamartine quote: "Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where..."
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Alphonse de Lamartine
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Don DeLillo
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid. John Waters
The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. In the midst of my usual afternoon stroll through the small hilly town attached to the girls' college where I taught French literature, I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip-dripping from the eaves of a frame house. So clear-cut were their pointed shadows on the white boards behind them that I was sure the shadows of the falling drops should be visible too. But they were not. ("The... Vladimir Nabokov
Julian Barnes quote: "When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You..."
When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases. Julian Barnes

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