Literature Quotes - Page 21

• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Adults, World

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• I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

  Tadao Ando

  Needs, Artistic, Happenings

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• So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dark, Race, Adults

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• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

  David Eagleman

  British, University, Undergraduate

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• Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

  Garth Ennis

  Yeah, Preacher, Hitman

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• Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

  Garth Ennis

  Writing, Men, Mind

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Gothic

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• A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

  Abel Ferrara

  Scripts, Pieces, Process

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• Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

  John le Carre

  Mistake, Book, Writing

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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

  Robert Duvall

  Race, Two, Culture

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Becoming, British, Dictatorship

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• I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Library, Stories, Littles

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• I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Difficult Choices, Grew, Profession

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• When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, America, Choices

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• Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

  Brit Hume

  Tv News, People, Tilt

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• In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

  Lee Hall

  Writing, Thinking, Dancing

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• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Helping, Reader

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• I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Two, French Woman

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• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teaching, Writing, Mean

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Able

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• My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mother, Teacher, New York

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• Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Spiritual, Exercise, Literary Genre

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