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When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What we call life is only talk of nature.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets. — Akash Lakhotia
Life without literary studies is death.
— Seneca The Younger
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
— Phyllis Rose
Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
— Anthea Syrokou
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.
— David Lodge
Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!
— Tushar Upreti
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
— Robert Dessaix
To own beauty is the first lie of it.
— Chris Campanioni
Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
— Stefanos Livos
Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
— John Steinbeck
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A library is more precious than a bank.
— Abhijit Naskar
Writing is a holy occupation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore
— Mary Karr
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
— Arthur Miller
What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups?
— Jorge Enrique Ponce
What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living.
— Marty Rubin
Life is a book. We write in everyday existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.
— Annie Bryant
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
— William Shakespeare
What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?
How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention? — Jeanette Winterson
How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention? — Jeanette Winterson
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
— J.G. Holland
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
— Yukio Mishima
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
— F.R. Leavis
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
— Henry David Thoreau
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
— Philip Larkin
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
— Cynthia Ozick
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
— Thomas McGuane
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
— William Stafford
If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sleep is death enjoyed.
— Friedrich Hebbel
Without literature, life is hell.
— Charles Bukowski
Life is a rich literature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
— Elliot Ackerman
If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
— Will Lavender
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
— Colum McCann
Living is deeper than just life
— Tru Lyfe
Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing in life comes easy and without a price. The trick is learning to never give up.
— Michael Alexander Beas
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
— Marcel Proust
It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
— Dejan Stojanovic
History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.
— M.H. Abrams
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
The passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams
...everything that is not literature is life.
— Jose Saramago
The writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
— Flannery O'Connor
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
— Franz Grillparzer
He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.
— Saul Bellow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
— Ellen Glasgow
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
— Paula Fox
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
— Karen Thompson Walker
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
— Nicole Krauss
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
— Marcel Theroux
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
— Charles Frahman
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
— Mary McCarthy
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
— Kenneth Patchen
There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice.
— John A. Vanek
After all, tomorrow is another day!
— Margaret Mitchell