- Dead
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels...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.
- Cost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020