Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Mark Twain

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Lafcadio Hearn

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

Andrew O'Hagan

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Harvey Pekar

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

John Henry Newman

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Thomas Carlyle

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

E. L. Doctorow

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Ryszard Kapuscinski