As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themse...
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by m...
Sturm und Drang?” “Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’
Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.
With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.
[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
