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There lived great souls in the history of the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world. — Claire Colebrook

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

The world of literature has no boundaries for words are lighter than air. — Nanette L. Avery

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. — David Amram

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge — Felix J. Palma

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

The world of books is heavenly paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all orbits of some sort,
circling around the world we call our own,
and literature...
Literature is a compass; — Thabo Jijana

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm. — Subhan Zein

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — Dejan Stojanovic

Living in a world of darkness doesn't mean we must surrender, but to survive, we need to occasionally unleash the diva from within. — Skye High

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. — Grace Paley

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. — Phillips Brooks

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures — Susan Sontag

Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to. — Tony Kushner

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. — Wole Soyinka

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law — John Bunyan

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. — Michael Ondaatje

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. — Alice Eve

... And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet. — Leonardo Sciascia

Literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods. — Michel Houellebecq

Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world. — Mira Jacob

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. — Sherman Alexie

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews

The end of the world can be cozy at times. — Mohsin Hamid

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. — Tom Spanbauer

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. — Lois Lowry

The things of the world fell by the wayside, you lost your speed and your eyesight and your fucking Electric Boogaloo, but literature was eternal, — Stephen King

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature. — Oscar Wilde

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament. — F.F. Bruce

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. — Annie Dillard

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it. — Jamaica Kincaid

No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers.. — Himmilicious

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. — Nadeem Aslam

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world. — Tessa Jowell