Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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

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

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

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 will not take "but" for an answer.

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

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

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

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.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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.

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.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

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.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.