Literature Quotes
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
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I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
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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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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
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I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
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Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
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Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
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I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.
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Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
