Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Literary theory

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#Literary theory #Writing craft

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Sara Sheridan

#Books #Commercial #Fiction #Literary

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

#Children #Men #Naughty

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Jane Austen

#Austen #Books #Jane austen #Literary quote

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Jane Austen

#Humor #Literary #Wit

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Oscar Wilde

#Affectations #Algernon charles swinburne #Literary criticism #Mimicry

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#Insanity

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#Morality #Nietzsche #Thus spake zaruthstra

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Pablo Picasso

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Marty Rubin

#Experience #Humanity #Ideology #Philosophy

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Benjamin Franklin

#Absurdity #Contradiction #Doctrines #Paradox

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

#America #Life is #Capitalism

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

#Science #Theory