Literature Quotes - Page 95

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.