Literature Quotes
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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Anglo-Saxons created a vernacular literature to which the continental nations at that time could show no parallel.
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
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I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable - the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
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I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
