Literature Quotes - Page 30

• I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Baseball, Writing, Biographies

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• I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

  Ken Follett

  Kings, Thinking, Parent

  "Ken Follett: Prolific writer, fan of 19th-century novels". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Paralyzed

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• I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

  David Guterson

  Years, Washington State, States

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• I'm not an urban person.

  David Guterson

  Urban, Persons

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• Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

  David Guterson

  Needs, Addresses, Modernism

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• My mom died when I was 8.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Mom, Died, My Mom

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• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  Kate Adie

  Modern Novel, Orange, Judging

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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  Kate Adie

  Drama, Childhood

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• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  Kate Adie

  Faults, Way, Danger

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• If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Race, People, Robots

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• If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Ideas, Always Trying

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• If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Twenties, Done, Earth

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• The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Ears, Way, Purses

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• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Adults, World

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• I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

  Tadao Ando

  Needs, Artistic, Happenings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

  David Eagleman

  British, University, Undergraduate

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• Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

  Garth Ennis

  Yeah, Preacher, Hitman

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• Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

  John le Carre

  Mistake, Book, Writing

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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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• The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Becoming, British, Dictatorship

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• 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.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Library, Stories, Littles

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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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• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Brit Hume

  Tv News, People, Tilt

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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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