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Literature Quotes

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

Feel Literature Down Looks Fiction

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.

Art Experience Literature You Will

I feel music is another kind of literature.

Music Feel Literature Kind I Feel

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality Literature You Wood Nothing

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

Soul Mind Literature Metaphor Since

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Jacques Audiard

Literature Cinema Outside Plastic Us

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Literature Poet Asked Poet Laureate

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

People World Literature Movies See

If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

Name American Literature Play Trials

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

Art Me Opinion Literature You Know

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

Science History Literature Gender

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

Literature More Up Keep Only Rugged

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Mother Children Me Weird Literature

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Literature Sooner Or Later Later

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Service Adventure Literature Seem

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

History Literature Career Russia

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

George Henry Lewes

Good Literature Insight Primarily

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

Love Art Walk People Literature You

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Literature Gossip More Than Popular

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

Work Music Name Famous Literature

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Knowledge Literature Chess His Bobby

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

Fight Gambling Literature Tiger Rare

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Purpose Fight Corruption Literature

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Live Speak Strong Literature Way

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