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Literature Quotes

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Whitley Strieber

Literature Horror Something Sure

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.

Marilynne Robinson

College Language American Literature

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

Work Literature Year Los Angeles

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

Survive Think American Literature

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

School Talent Literature Only

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Attitude Literature Dangerous Us

Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.

Art Literature Games Tell Glorious

I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.'

Reading Literature Enough You Know

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'

Literature Say Odds Tone Things

I wish more Italian literature were translated and read in English. I've discovered so many extraordinary and diverse writers: Lalla Romano, Carlo Cassola. Beppe Fenoglio, Giorgio Manganelli, just to name a few.

Name Wish Literature More I Wish

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Martin H. Fischer

Science Facts Literature Dictionary

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Truth Cold Speak Literature Real

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Society Literature Tragedy Out Which

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People Genius Literature Wit Humour

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Beautiful Art Religion Literature

Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

Literature Extinction Our Register

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Science Reality Literature Everything

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller

Survive Interesting Literature Out

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

Peace Me Literature Award Dream

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

Music Video Games Literature Media

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

Good Evil Literature Question Far

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Me World Literature Long Create

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Jonathan Frakes

Baseball American Literature Jazz

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Literature Industry Well Domination

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