Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

Eleanor Catton

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

James Dickey

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Haruki Murakami

Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was what it appeared to be: if you were afraid your plane would crash it was about death, if you were trying to...

Changing Places

English Teacher: Last and simple question. Where is the father? Rene: Ze fazer... English Teacher: No. The father. Rene: Ze fazer. English Teacher: No, the tip of the tongue between the teeth. As if you had a lisp. Father. Rene: Fazer. English Teache...

The 400 Blows

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The English Patient

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

Jose Mourinho

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

Dennis Bergkamp

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something s...

Nicolas Cage

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Two Cheers for Democracy

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.

Emma Donoghue

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

Amber Benson

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literatu...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu