Quotes tagged ‘Literature’

“Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. You and I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someon…”

— Stephen King, web.archive.org

“All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“didn’t anyone ever warn you not to try to trick a girl who reads? she’s already seen everything. - don’t try to waste your time again.”

— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com

“Virtual Six: It is what makes you human. Baltar: Is it? Not conscious thought? Not poetry, or art, or music, literature? Murder. Murder is my heritage.”

— Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin, Dr. Gaius Baltar, James Callis, imdb.com

“Somebody said I’m the Hemingway of 140 characters.”

— , politico.com

“Ash: Well, now that you're back, what's your big plan? Suzy: Well, just try to get everything back to normal. Ash: Normal? Ha. What's normal? Suzy: Family, work. Ash: Work? Work, where? Suzy: Oh, I'm an English teacher. Ash: What grade? Suzy: Tenth. Ash: What's your favorite book? Suzy: 'The Old Man…”

— Dominic Dierkes, Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams, Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“I just don’t get why they’re making us read 1984 when Orwell got so much wrong...”

— Frank Conniff, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“Philip Roth never received his Nobel Prize for Horniness, but teenager Alexander Portnoy still remains one of his most iconic creations.”

— Maris Kreizman, thecut.com

“Jack: Lemon, obviously I can’t approve of someone I’ve never met. Liz: Yeah, well, I’m not letting you meet Criss because you won’t approve of him. Jack: Well then I guess this is a catch-22, although I don’t know for sure because I refuse to read literature that questions the morality of war.”

— Robert Carlock, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com

“Your now is not your forever.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“My happiness, my abilities, and every possibility of being useful in any way have always been in the literary field.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“Writers aren’t (always) creating Easter egg hunts for readers, hiding references for them to find. But generally, you can assume that if you DO find something, it was put there on purpose for you.”

— Celeste Ng, twitter.com

“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know if it can clean up the mess in…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“I am curious, though, why no one is talking about all the bad literary men.”

— Roxane Gay, twitter.com

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.”

— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com

“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this Goddamn world upside down to do it.”

— Richard Brautigan, brautigan.net

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”

— Pierce Brown, amazon.com

“I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you.”

— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us

“Fire and water,… don’t really mix. You could say they’re incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”

— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com