Literature Quotes - Page 26

• I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

  Bob Woodward

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

  Bob Woodward

  Cities, Desks, Stills

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

  Bob Woodward

  Hands, Tvs, Politician

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Culture, Should

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• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  Irvine Welsh

  Guy, Males, Exhausted

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• Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Writing, Different

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• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Going Out, Excitement

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• I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

  Irvine Welsh

  Strong, Track, Trying

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• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Reading, Scotland

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• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Trying

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• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  Irvine Welsh

  Character, Political, Trainspotting

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• I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Beach, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

  Mo Yan

  Problem, Subtlety

  "Prolific Nobel winner's pen name? 'Not talking'" by Joe Sterling and Steven Jiang, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2012.

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• 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

  Country, Unique, People

  "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

  Mo Yan

  Important, Doe, Proud

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

  Kurt Loder

  Important, Stories, Television

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• Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

  Kurt Loder

  Pieces, Stuff, More Time

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• Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

  Kurt Loder

  Important, Stories, Wells

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• Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

  Kurt Loder

  Want, Interviews, Subjects

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• I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Adults

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• Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

  Steig Larsson

  Writing, Light, Stories

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• I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Writing

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• There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Littles, Action

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