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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

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. — Max Jacob

True love finds its own ways
To 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

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - — Jack Kerouac

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 bring
our 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

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. — David Amram

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

You are free to make your own choices, but ultimately your choices make you. — C.D. Sutherland

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism. — Terry Eagleton

Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. — Dale Spender

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[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

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

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 have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — Haruki Murakami

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. — Dario Fo

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

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth. — Virgil

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

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:
- Milo — Norton Juster

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own. — Epictetus

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. — Walter Moers

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

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right — Christopher Hitchens