Literature Quotes

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living. Rosecrans Baldwin
Life Art Food People Drinking Living Way Seemed Something More Paris Never Had Idea Liked Parts Because Becoming Prize Literature Hedonistic Moving Really Many Enjoyed
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. Rumaan Alam
World Slippery Adult Fails Audience Account Often Children Literature Product Grasp
It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination. Rumaan Alam
Quality Imagination Extraordinary Color Makes Exist Essential Lacking Children Form Literature Much
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell Banks
Thought Reading Become Late Late Teens Teens Visual Drifted Talent Boy Began Artist Artistic Literature Serious
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Me World Made Own Others Thomas Charles Charles Dickens Adopted My Own Having Absorb Opened George Passionately Dickens Up Loved Literature Them Really England Hardy
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. Ryszard Kapuscinski
Relationship Treat Intimate Possession Part Between Most Readers Text Literature Themselves
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa
Good People Will Sense More Read Real Very Than Real Sense Cannot Literature Who Lived
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important. Sabaa Tahir
Alone Me Important Become Whatever Young Could Writer Know Reader Becomes Mattered May Taught Story Whether Literature Worked Deserve
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable. Sabine Baring-Gould
Great Old World-Wide Unmistakable Insight Given Superstitions Glacier Study Advantages Tradition Literature Ice Transparent Origin
More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh. Said Sayrafiezadeh
Work You Reality People Country Else Our States More More People Know Left Friends Than Get Trying Walmart Behind Pittsburgh Literature Anywhere Anywhere Else Who Many United Lives United States Portraying
American literature has always been immigrant. Salman Rushdie
Immigrant Always Been American Literature American Literature
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People Genius Humour Wit Without Being Subtle Literature Spanish Little Much Hence Exquisitely Acute
Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books explaining what the first book meant to know what happened. Sara Pascoe
Me You Book First Too Other Books Had Know Read Modern Where Happened Literature Explaining Preferred Meant
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. Sarah Hall
People Ability Somehow Magnetic Step Over Because Deals Lines Lot Literature Who
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Sarah Orne Jewett
Great Mind Down Paper Rightly Put Over Years Itself Gets Whether Literature Little Thing Last Belongs
I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about. Scott Shane
War Great You Enemy College First Cold Other Cold War Great Enemy Kind About Russian Through Had Studied Course Gotten Were Hearing Up Just Grew Literature Then Really Fascinating Found
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow
Postmodernism Cost Audience Literature
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature. Scott Turow
Life Attitude Me Lawyer Before Writer Scholar Headed Toward Became Trained Just Literature English Professor
I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them. Serena Williams
You People Preach Doors Meet Restaurants Some Knock Also Lot Want Literature Place Them Planes
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. Seth Grahame-Smith
Library Worth Congress Guess Abandoned Unpublished Wrote Terrible Another Got Were Decade Gradually Short Screenplays Stories After Short Stories Literature Little Less Manuscript Many Novels Awful
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience. Shane Black
Together Slow Build Action Other Plot Threads Follow See Slowly Like Narrative Audience Coming Traditions Very Gradual Any Rewarding Movie Subtlety Literature Separate Should Means Action Movie Bringing
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature. Shane Black
Chill Example Macdonald Say Would Detective Genre Sort How Private Itself Literature Level
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down. Shane Carruth
You Value Looking Down Nutritional Has-Been Hopefully Some Attention Stuff Piece Narrative Passing Came Been Exist Up Author Get Hold Stories Literature While Storytelling Working Even Film Why Things
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. Sherman Alexie
World Poverty Think Know Felt Lot Literature Certainly Gap Why
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. Sherman Alexie
Class People Become Think Most Lot Being Literature Whole Based
When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left. Sherman Austin
Drive Big White Took Everything Computers Truck Were Off Left Done Information Literature Hard Each Downloading Loaded
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