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At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
In many ways, Bengalis and Marathis happen to be very similar. Both love theatre, literature and seafood.
