Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out of philosophical aesthetics or the study of literature and visual art, but the various strands of media theory converge in treating all of those as subsets of the study of media as form.

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.