Quotes of: Literature Keyword

The fairy or fantastic world replaces the classical Hades (or Hell) in Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight takes this fantasy element to new heights. Sir Gawain is one of the Knights of the Round Table, the followers of King Arthur, who is...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as ...

Lars Gustafsson

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

Where would we be if anything at all could turn up in books?

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

The Price of Creation

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

Leland Ryken

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

Mo Yan

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

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

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