Literature Quotes
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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
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I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
