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Literature Quotes

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

Work Mind Writing Think Literature

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Great Language Literature Meaning

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.

Heart Window Literature You Look

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

Eduardo Galeano

Work Writing Book Think Literature

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

I Am Detail Literature Analysis Fans

Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

Beauty Art World Reality Literature

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Police Soul Logic Literature Result

I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no-good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite - the books I read and reread in my teens - were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Good Child Literature Doubt Bad Who

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Words Literature Pictures Way Image

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

Elizabeth George

Good Me Literature Will Write Globe

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

People Literature Garden Young Now

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

Walter Cronkite

Great Reputation Pride Literature

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Sparkle Literature Brilliant English

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.

Funny Sad School Me Book Literature

People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

Serena Williams

People Doors Literature You Place

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

American Literature Nothing More

Literature has become my life.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Life My Life Literature Become

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Age Great Think Literature Help Up

Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.

Respect Writing Book Literature Want

War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent's most devastating conflicts - and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors - have often gone unnoticed in the West.

Uzodinma Iweala

War Literature Born New Africa Gone

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.

Michel Foucault

Knowledge History Thought Literature

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

David Augsburger

Book Bible Literature Whole Full

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Together Words Literature Pictures

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Respect Literature Enough Person Our

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