Literature Quotes
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The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.
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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.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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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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I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
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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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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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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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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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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
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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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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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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
