Literature Quotes - Page 158

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such intense sociality. There are some small mammals that have become eusocial - the mole rats - but that's a different thing. Humans are able to understand one another at very high levels, to cooperate in very large groups. Humans depend on one another in ways that are an absolute precondition to sharing the kinds of information that makes narrative possible.

It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father - that we understand the full weight of what we had.

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.