Literature Quotes - Page 24

• I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.

  Josh Radnor

  Book, Reading, Vampire

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

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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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• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Art, Games, Puppets

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• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Kings, Book, Editors

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• You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Psychics, Forgotten

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Biographies

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, Japan

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• I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

  Whitley Strieber

  Horror, Should

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• The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

  Whitley Strieber

  Character, Important, Doe

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• One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

  Justin Cronin

  Space, Individual, Theme

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• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

  David Talbot

  Blessing, Media, Dollars

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Media

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• So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  War, People, Black

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• Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

  Bob Woodward

  Hands, Tvs, Politician

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Culture, Should

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• Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Writing, Different

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• I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

  Norman MacCaig

  Book

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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Righteous, Courses, Profitable

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• Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Art, Real, Morality

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Dumb

  Sonnet 23

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• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Law, Lasts, Firsts

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• There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

  Writing, Doubt, Training

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• Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

  David Brin

  People, Age, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Easy, Courtesy

  "Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.

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• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Elude Us, Elude, Eternity

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