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Literature Quotes
On memory, genre, and what counts as literature.
These literature quotes take literature seriously as a form worth defending, including genres like horror that sometimes get dismissed too quickly. Memory comes up more than once, treated almost as literature's core material. The theme pairs with Art quotes, covering creative work more broadly.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
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What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.
- Grace
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- American Literature
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I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
- Calendar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad literature is a form of treason.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
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- Nov 07, 2020