Literature Quotes
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Oh, I'm terribly ignorant of Czech literature. It's disgraceful really.
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
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One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
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Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
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The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.
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Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
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Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary that we may warrantably say that nine-tenths of it is about the Negro rather than of him, so that it is the Negro problem rather than the Negro that is known.
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It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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I have a huge passion for literature.
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I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
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Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
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I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
