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Literature Quotes

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Golf Literature Individual Plot

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

Practice Thought Literature More

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy People Literature You Behave

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

Arthur Phillips

Influence American Literature Hard

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

Life Great Art Believe Literature

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.

I Am Literature Crime See Return

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Creative Literature Sex Inconceivable

By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

Wladyslaw Reymont

Age Knowledge Literature Lady Thirty

I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.

I Am Literature You Artist Career

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Shyam Selvadurai

Experience Literature Find Canada

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Literature Philosophy Degree English

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Communication Art Best Literature

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett

Influence Think American Literature

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

Life Children My Life Literature Big

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Dreams Literature Moral Prosperity

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

Life Work World Literature Marble

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

Love Think Literature Cave Us Songs

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

Memory Literature Out Going Get

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Great Peace I Am Believe Literature

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Art Literature Religions Surrogate

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Elfriede Jelinek

Literature Powerful Write Weak Side

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Advice Literature Problem Bad Begin

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell

Life Work Mistake Literature Study

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science Rest Literature Always Means

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