Literature Quotes
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Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.
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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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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
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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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Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
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Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself
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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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The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
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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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You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
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There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
