Literature Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Bob Woodward

  People, Want, Figures

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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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• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  Irvine Welsh

  Guy, Males, Exhausted

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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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• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Trying

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• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  Irvine Welsh

  Character, Political, Trainspotting

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• One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

  Mo Yan

  Problem, Subtlety

  "Prolific Nobel winner's pen name? 'Not talking'" by Joe Sterling and Steven Jiang, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2012.

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• My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Unique, People

  "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

  Kurt Loder

  Pieces, Stuff, More Time

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• Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

  Kurt Loder

  Important, Stories, Wells

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• There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Littles, Action

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• Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

  Ella Maillart

  Humanity, Different, Infinity

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• One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  Ella Maillart

  Children, Blessed, Artist

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• Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

  Ella Maillart

  Able

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• The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

  Ella Maillart

  Mind, States, Angle

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• When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

  Ella Maillart

  Heart, Language, Speak

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• Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

  Northrop Frye

  Mythology, Humans, Human Society

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.229, Dundurn

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• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  Will Self

  Art, Long, Curious

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• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  Abraham Verghese

  Beautiful, Imagination, Alive

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• Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Daughter, Heaven, Earth

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