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We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
— Wole Soyinka
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
— Anton Chekhov
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
— Paul De Man
Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.
— Kate Atkinson
To own beauty is the first lie of it.
— Chris Campanioni
True love finds its own waysTo spread goodness, always. — Ana Claudia Antunes
The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds.
— David Brooks
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
— William Empson
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
— Katherine Paterson
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
— Alistair Cooke
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
— Zaeema J. Hussain
We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own,
and literature...
Literature is a compass; — Thabo Jijana
The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.
— John Gaddis
Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.
— George Orwell
Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
— Dejan Stojanovic
We must bringour own light
to the
darkness. — Charles Bukowski
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
— William Stafford
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
— Gerald Brenan
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
— Lytton Strachey
If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.
— Terry Eagleton
People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
— James Russell Lowell
Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
— Virginia Woolf
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
Each man's memory is his own private literature
— Aldous Huxley
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
— Christian Louboutin
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
— James Branch Cabell
If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.
— Gustave Flaubert
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
— Johnny Rich
Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.
— Marcel Proust
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
— John Burroughs
Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.
— Tadeusz Konwicki
What I had always loved most about literature was the way it eased my own loneliness. Even
— Rufi Thorpe
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
— Thomas Bulfinch
