Literature Quotes - Page 23

• And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, Taught, Poetry Is

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• But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

  Norman MacCaig

  Jobs, Persons, Particular

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• I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

  Norman MacCaig

  Boys, Great Love, Lasts

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• I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

  Norman MacCaig

  Years, American Poetry

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• When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

  Norman MacCaig

  Men, Thinking, Voice

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• In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reflection, Wish, Culture

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• There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Expression, Ideas

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• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  Irving Langmuir

  Height, International

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Fantasy

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  Manuel Puig

  Country, Writing, People

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• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Film, Certain

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Novel, Convince, Written

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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Thinking, Reader

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• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Fantasy, Masterpiece

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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  Manuel Puig

  Aspiration, Tropics

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• I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

  Pratibha Patil

  Happiness, Art, Believe

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Islamic, Teaching

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• I know of no better name than Anarchism.

  Herbert Read

  Names, Anarchism, Knows

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, People, Imagination

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Writing, Moments

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• I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

  Nora Roberts

  Long, Typical

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• Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

  Ali Smith

  Block, Exercise, Growing Stronger

  "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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