Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Richard Flanagan

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Ted Rall

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Camilo Jose Cela

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Naguib Mahfouz

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Yahoo Serious

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared w...

The Child Garden

If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being sedu...

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns to be made. There are therefore numerous alternatives for key words like battle, warrior, horse, ship, the s...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi." "You've seen Star Wars?" "Seen it and denounced it." "You've denounced Star Wars?" She looked me straight in the eye and said, "Hollywood should not glorify witches." "I think you've missed the p...

The Midnight Mayor

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately...

Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace....

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

My goal was that the reader wouldn't have to be trained in literature or even in science fiction to receive the tale in its simplest, purest form. And, since a great many writers and critics have based their entire careers on the premise that anythin...

Orson Scott Card

Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...

Michael Gordin