Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

Alistair MacLeod

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

Adam Phillips Going Sane

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Sara Sheridan

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

Love

I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

Time

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Sarah Palin

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Eric Hobsbawm

And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous and delicate, its aerial perspectives are even more wide and profo...

In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is...

Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatu...

The Haunted Dusk

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I le...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analyt...

Journal des Goncourt, tome 2

As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common word such as 'castle' is a French loan word, for example; and the whole romance tradition comes from the F...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The concept of an author, the single creative person who gives the text 'authority', only comes later in this period. Most Old English poetry is anonymous, even though names which are in no way comparable, such as Caedmon and Deor, are used to identi...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the poem, totalling one-third of all the words in the text. Many of these compounds are kennings. The word 'to ken' i...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize feelings that have physical signs - increased heart rate, sweaty palms, or calm, relaxed breathing and so on, dependi...

Read for Your Life: Literature as a Life Support System

Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and ...

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