Literature Quotes
-
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
-
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
-
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
-
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
-
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
-
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
-
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
-
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
-
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
-
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
-
I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.
-
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
-
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
-
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
-
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
-
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
-
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
-
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
-
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
-
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?
-
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
-
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
-
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
-
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
