Literature Quotes - Page 72

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.