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Dreams are a beautiful bride
that holds our hands to
enter a world more glorious
than this one. — Subhan Zein

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 think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo

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

That's the great thing about literature
it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star. — Charles Dickens

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

You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose. — Toni Morrison

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

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

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. — Nicholas Kristof

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

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. — Nadeem Aslam

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

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

You're just jealous because I have conquered world of literature, as well as science. — Katie Kennedy

Literature exists because the world isn't enough. — Fernando Pessoa

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other. — C.S. Lewis

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

The Christian publishing world has embraced the safe over the good — J. Mark Bertrand

You see the world in colors,
I see in Black and Red. — Irum Zahra

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

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass - an hourglass that drains grain by grain. — Rabih Alameddine

My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you'll remember; literature that matters. — M.G. Crisci

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere. — Jane Levy

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

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women. — Germaine Greer

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. — Dejan Stojanovic

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. — John Cheever

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

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature. — Hilary Mantel

When all is lost, there is still a memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. — Gore Vidal

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

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law. — Lara Biyuts

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver

Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world. — Christina Westover

Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads. — Romain Gary

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up. — Amos Tversky

The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. — Dejan Stojanovic

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. — D.H. Lawrence

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

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had. — Wilfred Waters

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

Without books, the world will be void. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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 can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. — Colum McCann

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

For literature, all the world is a stage. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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

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

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stories shape the world. — Lance Conrad

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. — Northrop Frye

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

In the end, the world returns to a grain. — Dejan Stojanovic

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching. — Terry A. O'Neal

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

Literature keeps the world from shrivelling up and dehydrating! — Baret Magarian

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully. — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

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

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

The world is God's salvation. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought. — William Shakespeare