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Literature Quotes

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Believe Literature You Born Two See

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

Luis Alberto Urrea

People Literature Trying Always

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

Future Past Book Literature Award

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Struggle Game Literature Possible

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Good Children World Think Literature

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

Learning Art Day Space Literature

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art Experience Literature Lived Sole

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Richard Carmona

American Literature Talking You Want

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

Pamela Druckerman

Rest Literature Philosophy Follow

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

Think Literature Enough You Said

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Great Mind Literature Down Over

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Children Literature You Know More

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Life Women Art Men World Literature

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Light Job Youth Rest Literature You

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Nature Men Mind Literature Artist

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Free Think Literature Creating Who

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Life My Life Literature Miserable

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Josh Hutcherson

Character Best Literature Period

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Hope Small Literature Media Way

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Work Criticism Literature Person Wit

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Literature Cinema External Internal

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

Love Beauty Art Believe Literature

Literature invents its own rules.

Literature Rules Own

Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which literature and learning made a noticeable rebound - spread through much of the territory Rome had once dominated.

Learning Culture Beginning Literature

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