English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds were closed. They thudded to the floor. And yet...
Time will solve all the problems Chinese school graduates face. In our bilingual society, there are no more Chinese school graduates, only English school graduates who can speak Mandarin. These English school graduates probably can also read and writ...
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
