Literature Quotes

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks