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Literature Quotes

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

Literature Kind Ten Discover Did

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

Travel Rich Literature Commercial

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

Value World Reading Rich Literature

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

People Think Literature Class Become

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Music Theatre Literature Complicated

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Talent Reading Thought Literature

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

Me Literature Got Interested Means

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

Future Literature You Wealth Find

The crown of literature is poetry.

W. Somerset Maugham

Poetry Literature Crown

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

World Literature Know Say Why Hard

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Literature See Head Big Above Going

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Hate Care Language Literature Enjoy

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Alone Literature Most Attempt Often

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

Energy Literature Write Study See

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

American Literature Bad Back Made

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally

World Church Literature 1950s Found

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Great Literature Tradition Ice Study

Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost have American editors shown any interest in issuing his poems here.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Heart Children American Literature

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Art Writing Literature Journalism

I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.

Art Culture Literature Enough You

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Politics People Literature Individual

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

Life My Life Literature Irish Master

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Baseball Literature Large Around

Literature precedes genre.

Literature Genre Precedes

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