Literature Quotes

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

T. S. Eliot
- Great
- Poetry
- Language
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin
- Literature
- Spanish

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.

Edward M. Lerner
- Science
- Words
- Literature
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

Deborah Harkness
- Women
- Death
- Powerful
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

C. V. Wedgwood
- Good
- Long
- Writing
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Philip Pullman
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Rita Mae Brown
- Live
- Quiet
- Grows
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.

Jonas Mekas
- Book
- Literature
- Tree