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Literature Quotes

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Irving Langmuir

Literature Heights Make International

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

Deborah Harkness

Women Death Literature Tell Park Us

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Me Literature Nervous Make Tardiness

I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.

Culture College Literature Stop Up

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Gratitude Teacher Thinking Literature

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Suffering Color End Literature Human

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Children Myself Literature Know Poor

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Strength Vision Creative Literature

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wish Literature You Mean Write Him

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Khaled Hosseini

Great Poetry Literature Tradition

It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

G. Willow Wilson

Balance Short Literature Know Talk

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Christian Louboutin

Music Architecture Poetry Literature

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

Jacques Derrida

Language Literature Philosophy Dream

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Power Moment Man Literature Enough

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Communication Literature Journalism

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

Life School Literature Historical

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

Communication Language Literature

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

Research Writing Literature Been

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

George Andrew Olah

Work Time Literature Personal London

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Work Me Start Literature You Way

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

Think Literature High Books I Think

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Humor Literature Mystery Sometimes

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Brain Think Literature Cinema Brains

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Henry Lewes

World Literature Without Within

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