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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
