Quotes about literature
literature broke stills
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored. Ken Kesey
literature ritual knows
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
literature spirit
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
literature able television
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even. Katie Couric
literature sacred temples
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. Mark Twain
literature imitation
In literature imitations do not imitate.
literature improvement enough
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
literature forbidden-fruit forbidden-things
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
literature finals plagiarism
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. Mary McCarthy
literature dissent free-society
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected. Natan Sharansky
literature
Literature has become my life. Mikhail Bulgakov
literature russian-literature
I read Russian literature a lot. Mikhail Baryshnikov
literature email columns
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. Nicholas D. Kristof
literature may censorship
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. Nadine Gordimer
literature select nobel
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. Naguib Mahfouz
literature language nobel
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
literature culture notes
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
literature form treason
Bad literature is a form of treason. Joseph Brodsky
literature realizing robin-hood
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories. Patrick Rothfuss
literature feels great-things
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. Lev Grossman
literature west ethical
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. Lafcadio Hearn
literature dry nutrition
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. Kenneth Oppel
literature looks exotic
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. Kazuo Ishiguro
literature way ifs
If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it. Oprah Winfrey
literature myth great-literature
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. Margaret Atwood
literature harvard subjects
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
literature doe done
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. Ken Olsen
literature berlin topics
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. Bruce Sterling
literature albums royalty
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. Martin Bashir
literature might soil
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne
literature language speak
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. Terry Eagleton
literature grids form
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. Terence McKenna
literature hallmark american-literature
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. Tayari Jones