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Literature Quotes

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Good Art Experience War Literature

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Memory Literature Anything Including

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

Daniel Barenboim

Music Children Learn Literature Way

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Hero American Literature About Since

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Language Literature Said Sacred Java

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Respect Language Literature Wealth

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Relationship Me Literature Growing

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

Community Political Literature Body

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Music Literature Loyal Jane Austen

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Good Literature Something Different

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Love Children Me Drive Literature

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

History Great Literature Little Deal

I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.

Live Beach Day Bike Literature Down

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Learning Myself People Me Literature

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

People Ideas Thoughts Literature You

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stephan Jenkins

Music Value Literature Moments Minds

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Great Reading Literature Easy Works

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Relationship Poetry World Literature

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

Hope Process American Literature See

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

Story Thought Literature More Used

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker

Literature Desire Memorable Actor

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Writing Literature Problem Sometimes

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

Music Culture Literature Europe Arts

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great American Literature Dove Fan

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