Literature Quotes - Page 142

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.

The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

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

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.