Literature Quotes - Page 126

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.