August Wilhelm von Schlegel Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.
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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
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Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
