Literature Quotes
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I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
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I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
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Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.
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But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
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Literature is humanity talking to itself.
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If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.
