Literature Quotes - Page 148

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

For me, words are just words, nothing else

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Remarks aren't literature.