Literature Quotes - Page 153

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince.

But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.

There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget! - in chess, like in literature, "the other" (the reader, the adversary, the partner, etc.) has to be a collaborator, has to work with you to get to the final goal. We depend on them! But they also depend on us.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Death swallows death.