- American Writers
- |
- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
- Decision
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
- Independent
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
- Creativity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Major
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
- Dante
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evil
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
- Mind
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emphasize
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
- Our
- |
- Nov 07, 2020