- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.
- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
- Remarks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remarks are not literature.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.
- Dogma
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020