Literature Quotes - Page 144

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

People never believe you.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.