Quotes About Literature

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.