Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Literature. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Literature Quotes And Sayings by 89 Authors including Diana Vreeland,Gwee Li Sui,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Harold Bloom,Kilroy J. Oldster for you to enjoy and share.

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Where would fashion be without literature?
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Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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Literature is achieved anxiety.
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Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior.
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Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to rebuild ourselves. Over time, over the course of many books, we construct a deeper, truer self.
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I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment
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The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.
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Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside
and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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I don't believe in literature-I believe in conversation.
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"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
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Literature is life.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.
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Literature endures like the universal spirit,
And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.
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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
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Literature is sacred knowledge
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Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
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I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
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Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
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There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is
to teach; the function of the second is
to move.
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
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Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
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Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.
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Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.
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Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.
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Literature is the heart and the soul of a society. Like music it's the words expressing multitude of emotions, self riposte and gripping thoughts.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book ...
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Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
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Literature is for the sake of humanity.
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I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
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Literature is the garden of wisdom.
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Literature is the memory of humanity.
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What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.
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Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.
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Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
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When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.
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Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
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Literature gives great light and great life.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.
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We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
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Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.
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But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her.
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Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.
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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
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Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Literature is the record of our discontent.
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Literature is a sacred knowledge.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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The love for literature is the key to knowledge.
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The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature is my Utopia
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
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Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
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There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.
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The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
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Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.
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Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.
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Literature ... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.
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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.