Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. Herbert Gold
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. Lawrence Clark Powell
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. Amy Lowell
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round. David Lodge
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity. David C. Mccullough
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Margaret Atwood
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Literature bores me, especially great literature. John Berryman
Literature bores me, especially great literature.
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. Frederick Crews
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. John Gregory Dunne
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. John Cheever
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. Camilo Jose Cela
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. Nelson Algren
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. John Cheever
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. Zelda Fitzgerald
Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. E. B. White
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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