Literature Quotes - Page 24

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  Irving Langmuir

  Height, International

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• If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

  Jim Leach

  Shoes, Figures, Ifs

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

  Clarke Peters

  America, Minutes, Five

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Literary Theory, Jargon, Sake

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Fantasy

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  Manuel Puig

  Way, Environment, Individual

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• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  Manuel Puig

  Country, Writing, People

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• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Film, Certain

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• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  Manuel Puig

  Character, Special, Trying

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Study, Kind

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Novel, Convince, Written

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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Thinking, Reader

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• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

  Manuel Puig

  Views, Needs, Impossible

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• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Fantasy, Masterpiece

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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  Manuel Puig

  Aspiration, Tropics

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• A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

  Paula Patton

  Photography, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

  Kathy Reichs

  Writing, Character, People

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• 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

  Christian, Philosophy, Issues

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books

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• Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

  Leland Ryken

  Appreciation, Understanding, Tasks

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.157, Shaw Books

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Islamic, Teaching

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

  Herbert Read

  Emotional, Past, Intellectual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• I know of no better name than Anarchism.

  Herbert Read

  Names, Anarchism, Knows

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

  Herbert Read

  Country, Believe, Numbers

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