Literature Quotes
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The lack of literature on the topic was a handicap, but my great teacher, Elvin Semrad, had taught us to be skeptical about textbooks. We had only one real textbook, he said: our patients. We should trust only what we could learn from them—and from our own experience.
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.
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literature is the record of our discontent.
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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.
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All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
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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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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
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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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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!
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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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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
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Headlines are icons, not literature. (p. 5)
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
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In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.
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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
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Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
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The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.
