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Literature Quotes

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

Time Legacy Literature Down Write

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Coffee People Literature Want Become

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Change Literature Signs Ethical West

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Education Literature Paris Harvard

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

Age Poetry Literature Kind Except

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Path Drive Literature Trying You Up

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

Literature Rare Own Common He Our

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

Karen Thompson Walker

Life Good Job Story Literature Way

I've always said that music is like literature.

Music Literature Said Always Like

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Family Good Job Literature Write Up

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

Literature Know Digital Ruin Buying

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

Influence Think American Literature

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

Children Literature Week Up Percent

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

College Literature Heritage Citizen

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

Questions Literature You Pose Depend

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Andrea Mitchell

Love People College Literature Study

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

I Am World Wish Literature Create

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Literature Emotions Said Technique

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Delmore Schwartz

Character Effort Literature Formal

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Marguerite Duras

Literature Journalism Passionate See

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Education Me Literature More Made

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

Great Focus Writing Literature Like

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Criticism Literature Never

Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

Love Children Loved Literature Look

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