Quotes About Literature

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.