Literature Quotes - Page 155

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

God doesn't know things. He is things.