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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it.
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
