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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' Lydia Lunch

You Better Guess Write Emphasize Literature Litter

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by. Lynn Coady

Love People Will Books Slighted Out Never Feel Like Read Genuinely Get Swallow Literature Hard Who Even Necessarily Widely

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. Lytton Strachey

Great Thought Pure Indeed Triumphs Writers Were Domain Achieved Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Literature Century Many Peculiar

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

Rare Own Our He French French Literature Amateur Very Common Literature

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. Lytton Strachey

Mind Value Inevitable Other Drama Dramatic Shakespeare Poetic Almost Reader Course His Dominated Literature Which Should Measure Standards English

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. M. H. Abrams

History You Culture Had Understand Literature Place Believed

When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy. Ma Yansong

Music You Master Classical Something Poem Structures Constructed Look Builders Were Linked Often Literature Which Means Standard Copy

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. Mal Peet

Teenage See Adult Between Any Fiction Literature Really Barrier

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point. Malorie Blackman

Creative Creativity Own Different Kinds Teenagers Teens Our Books Responses Kinds Poems Point Come Springboard Tapping Up Different Wanted Stories Literature Themselves Use Using Starting Starting Point

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. Manuel Puig

Me Nervous Make Tardiness Literature

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. Manuel Puig

Me Decision Side Literature Choose Chose

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. Marek Hlasko

Me Followed Writers Road Poland Fellow Led Very Different Literature

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. Margaret Atwood

Harvard Subject Literature Victorian

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. Margaret Atwood

Great Myth Everyone Once Great Literature Read Just Literature

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. Marian Wright Edelman

Law School Law School Russian Study Going Wanted Literature Planned

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. Marilyn Hacker

Creative Writing Programs States Per Given Studies Study Over Well Courses Foreign Foreign Languages Text Graduate Literature Languages Theory Creative Writing Keep Preponderance United United States

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on. Mario Vargas Llosa

You Free Country Nothing Live Way About More Only More Or Less Becomes Going Often Where Information Literature Informed Less Comparable

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature. Mario Vargas Llosa

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought. Mario Vargas Llosa

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