A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
George Borrow
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.
Gretchen Rubin
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.
Claire Messud
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes
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As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham
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We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
Howard Nemerov
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
Apollonius of Tyana
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Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
Ismail Kadare
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It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.
Amitava Kumar
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It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Hermann Hesse
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Annie Dillard
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I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
Italo Calvino
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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
Stephen Greenblatt
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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
Henry Louis Gates
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow
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I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
Anne Fortier
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Haruki Murakami
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Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in!
Sonya Walger
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Gilbert Murray
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I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
Alice McDermott
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