Literature Literary Theory Quotes

#1. People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.

Esther Perel

#2. Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

George Herbert

#4. But it was not to be.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?

Anne Tyler

#6. First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Mason Cooley

#7. Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

#8. I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#9. Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Roland Barthes

#10. I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

Jennifer Ellison

#11. The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Charles Simic

#12. When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Mickey Rourke

#13. Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

Gore Vidal

#14. You've got a big ego, Fuentes."
"That's not all I've got.

Simone Elkeles

#15. Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Nancy Pearcey

#16. Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.

Edgar Cayce

#17. When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

Tzvetan Todorov

#18. Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten - my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.

George Clayton Johnson

#20. In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Terry Pratchett