Literature Quotes - Page 137

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Im always trolling for trivia.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a few elements that distinguish women's observations from men's, like the ability to notice some fine details.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would?

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.