Quotes of: Literature Keyword

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Whitley Strieber

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...

Future Shock

It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what ...

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was a new force in relation to the state. The threat of rebellion, of the overturning of esta...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to a crafty listener. Reading, no matter what you're reading, presupposes a belief in the potential of the text - to speak to you, e...

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think...

Letters and Papers from Prison

Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find...

At Swim-Two-Birds

The main reason why serious historical studies of the Rosicrucian manifestos and their influence have hitherto been on the whole lacking is no doubt because the whole subject has been bedevilled by enthusiasts for secret societies. There is a vast li...

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with uni...

Kathryn Davis

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

The Everlasting Man

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Believers: A novella and stories

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

Book of Sketches

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Gertrude Stein

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

Strange Bodies

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Landmarks in French Literature

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Literature Unbound