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Literature Quotes

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Mathematics Law Writing Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best Literature Exciting After

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Funny Literature Goes Ever

I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

Me Pride Loved Literature Prejudice

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

Miriam Margolyes

Literature Radio University English

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Music Art Literature More Than

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

Art Culture Roots Think Literature

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

Great Bridge Writing Literature He

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Literature Violence You Sex Know

I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

People Think Literature Bad Young

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Father God Decision Speak Literature

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

R. A. Salvatore

Science Ugly Literature Fantasy

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Life Intelligence Me Literature You

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Weird Literature Problem You Know

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

American Literature You Pretty Read

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

Literature Nationalism Late Reaction

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Age Think Literature Enough You Two

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Think Literature Human Quest I Think

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Creative Writing Literature Study

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Women Literature Consumerism See

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Literature Masterpiece Out Dictionary

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Writing Literature Say Knew Indeed

I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Good Culture Think Literature You

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Love Science Process Literature Own

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