Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. Afte...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their resp...
I'm not very good at standard English.
English music is white - it evades everything.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.
the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
