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Literature Quotes

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Reading Literature You Become About

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Life People View Literature You See

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

Good Experience Literature Out Must

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Work Vision Art I Am Literature Own

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

Literature Say Beyond Arguing Us

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Literature Always Fairy Film Been

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

George R. R. Martin

Think Literature Want Never Write

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

History Art Culture World Literature

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Age Great American Literature Early

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Business Direction Literature Sense

My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what I try to do. Which is to say, 'How does this writer do this? How did he order his scenes? Do you notice any pattern to his sentences?'

Great Literature You Look Say Way

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

War Think Literature Anything Been

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Church Literature Kind Protest Judas

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

History Ideas Thought Literature

Literature is news that stays news.

Literature News Stays

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

Penelope Lively

Children Literature Feeling Go See

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Science Literature Classic Always

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Art People Literature Understand How

I have a huge passion for literature.

Passion Literature Huge

I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Proud Learn Literature Doing Know

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Home Time Me Literature Serious

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

Good Past Fun Think Literature You

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

David Lagercrantz

Great Literature Back Go Reason

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Library Short Literature Worth Got

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