Literature is life.
– Lailah Gifty Akita
Related Quotes:
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The life of the spirit is enfold in great literature. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Great literature makes a great life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The greatest literature is the Biblical stories. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Ancient literature is a rich history. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature. – Richard Brookhiser
- She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. – Michael Cunningham
- When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
- Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. – Anthony Powell
- When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. – FR Leavis
- These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature. – Christine de Pizan
- Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls. – Linda Bender
- Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.(Southey’s reply to Charlotte Bronte) – Robert Southey
- A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology. – Thomas Moore
- Without literature, life is hell. – Charles Bukowski
- Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. – Witold Gombrowicz
- Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
- Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature – Anita Brookner
- …there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love. – Daphne Kalotay
- Literature is a writer’s secret life recorded in symbols. – Will Lavender
- Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. – Marcel Theroux
- Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round … – Chris Campanioni
- Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life. – JorisKarl Huysmans
- Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. – Roman Payne
- It’s a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He’s no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´ – David Lodge
- The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced -œlessons from life,- is embedded in all literature. – Vera B Williams