Literature Quotes - Page 21

• A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

  Abel Ferrara

  Scripts, Pieces, Process

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

  Robert Duvall

  Race, Two, Culture

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Difficult Choices, Grew, Profession

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• When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, America, Choices

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• In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

  Lee Hall

  Writing, Thinking, Dancing

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• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teaching, Writing, Mean

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Able

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• Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Spiritual, Exercise, Literary Genre

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• Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Two, Different

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• I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Reading, Writing, Wife

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• The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Character, Peculiar, Difficult

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• When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Pages

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Issues, Secret, Western

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• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Stronger, Tyranny

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• What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Mind, Encounters, Moments

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• I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  Tabitha King

  Believe, Past, Weight

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• There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

  Glenway Wescott

  Pain, Disappointment, Endure

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

  Martin Bashir

  Criminals, Saws, Activity

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• You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dog, England, Englishmen

  'The Loved One' (1948) ch. 1

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• Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Murder, Found

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• You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Government, Needs, Helping

  "Guns, Politics And That Fake First Family: How To Create A Better World" by Cathy Chester, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Expression, Novelists

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