Literature Quotes
-
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.
-
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
-
In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.
-
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
-
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
-
Literature is analysis after the event.
-
Our literature is in great shape.
-
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.
-
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.
-
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
-
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
-
Persecution, then, gives rise to a peculiar technique of writing, and therewith to a peculiar type of literature, in which the truth about all crucial things is presented exclusively between the lines. That literature is addressed, not to all readers, but to trustworthy and intelligent readers only.
-
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.
-
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
-
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
-
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
-
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
-
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
-
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
-
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
-
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.
-
All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
-
It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.
-
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
