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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.
I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.
I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation, or anything which may separate us on the surface.
Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with her that I'd discuss literature. I speak only of the film 'L'Innocente,' and what she does she does well.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
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