Importance Of Literature Quotes

#1. The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.

Marcel Proust

#2. Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

Jerry Coleman

#3. If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

Joseph Campbell

#4. In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

Northrop Frye

#5. Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

Sri Aurobindo

#6. The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

John Dewey

#7. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

William John Locke

#8. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain De Botton

#9. I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

Franz Kafka

#10. You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

Woodrow Wilson

#11. When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Mo Yan

#12. Circumstances and settings are no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then, like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn't shake it off. Nor could I.

Patrick Modiano

#13. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

Cynthia Heimel

#14. God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

Richard Brookhiser

#15. Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can't afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

Alain De Botton

#16. I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Philip Pullman

#17. There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Amish Tripathi

#18. The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Bruno Bettelheim

#19. All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

Norman Cousins

#20. I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

James Altucher

#21. Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Buck Rodgers

#22. And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson