Adrian McKinty Quotes

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
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• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
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• I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
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• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
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• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
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• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
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• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
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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?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
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• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
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• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• American myths have never been colorless.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Important
  • Truth

• I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Wish
  • Literature
  • Littles

• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Spirit
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  • Afford

• I want to settle down.

  

  Ali Fazal

• If you look dull, the easiest thing to do is wash your face with water, and immediately you look refreshed.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Water

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
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• Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Literature