Quotes About Literature

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The author is still dead, folks!!