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Literature Quotes

Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'

Book Literature Tiger Student Iron

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

Time College Speak Literature Ahead

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

Literature Adapt Fantasy Endure How

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Heart Great Think Thought Literature

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Margaret Atwood

Great Literature Everyone Myth Just

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Music Art Literature Place Earth

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

Work Bible Revolution Literature

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

People Feel Literature Create Try

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

Deborah Harkness

History Art Death Literature Talk

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Decision Me Literature Choose Side

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

Myself Feel Literature You Heritage

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Work Great Literature Enough You Go

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

World Think Better Literature Will

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Good Think Literature You Kind Here

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Lawrence Durrell

Love Woman Literature You Three Her

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Style Art Foundation Literature Web

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

Good Art Think Literature You Fall

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

School Writing End Literature Doing

If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

Christopher Buckley

Son Win Think Literature Say Dead

I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

Jacqueline Woodson

Love Children World Literature Young

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

Matthew Desmond

Family Man People Literature You

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

History Literature Major Had Studied

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

Work Truth Ignore Literature Nation

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

Clifford Geertz

Soul People Literature Remember New

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