Literature Quotes
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
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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.
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I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
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I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
