Literature Quotes - Page 25

• I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.

  Josh Radnor

  Book, Reading, Vampire

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

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• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Writing, Moments

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• I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

  Nora Roberts

  Long, Typical

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• I need to write to be happy.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Needs

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.

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• Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

  Ali Smith

  Block, Exercise, Growing Stronger

  "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Art, Games, Puppets

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• I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Reading, People, Effort

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• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Kings, Book, Editors

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• You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Psychics, Forgotten

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• How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Realizing, Failing

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Biographies

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, Japan

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• A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

  Stan Sakai

  Play, Stories, Done

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

  Whitley Strieber

  Horror, Should

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• The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

  Whitley Strieber

  Character, Important, Doe

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• My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

  Bernie Taupin

  Mother, Father, War

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

  David Talbot

  School, College, High School

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• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

  David Talbot

  New York, Thinking, Important

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• I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

  David Talbot

  Lonely, Thinking, Differences

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• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

  David Talbot

  Blessing, Media, Dollars

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• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

  David Talbot

  Thinking, Media, People

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Media

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• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Bob Woodward

  People, Want, Figures

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