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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
— Christopher Hitchens
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
— R. Curtis Venture
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
— Charlie LeDuff
Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.
— Christopher Hitchens
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
Let's get this movie started. There's nothing like a little Austen to soothe the wounded soul," Theresa said.
— Mary Jane Hathaway
Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.
— Greg Pincus
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
— Oscar Wilde
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
— Ralph Ellison
For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.
— G.M. Malliet
Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.
— Lemony Snicket
Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?
Dismays me so, I've sadly penned
Another book about it. — Robert W. Service
All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.
— Viken Berberian
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There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
— Howard Nemerov
I have a plot, but not much happens.
— Howard Nemerov
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
— Anna Quindlen
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
— Aristophanes
The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.
— Fernando Pessoa
These are sad days in literature. Homer is dead. Shakespeare is dead. And I myself am not feeling at all well.
— Mark Twain
You can always tell a pig by its grunt.
— Nikolai Gogol
Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.
— Heidi Schulz
We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?
— Rick Yancey
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.
— Becky Watson
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
— Terry Pratchett
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
— Alexander Theroux
I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.
— John Raptor
Puns are the highest form of literature.
— Alfred Hitchcock
The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?
— C.J. Milbrandt
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
— Jasper Fforde
Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised.
— C.J. Milbrandt
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
— Jasper Fforde
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
— Alfred North Whitehead
