Quotes About Literature

Science Fiction is that form of literature which deals with the effect of technological change in an imagined future, an alternative present or a reconceived history.

The young New York immigrant woman from Mexico sitting in a college class in contemporary literature can ask herself, as class discussion of a novel begins, whether she's going to express her identity as the Latina, the Mexican, the woman, the immigrant, or the teenager as class discussion unfolds.

The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul

Paul, and all the other authors of the New Testament, wrote in Greek).

books played virtually no role in the polytheistic religions of the ancient Western world.

The Apology of Socrates was Plato's account of the legal defense that Socrates made at his trial in Athens. The speech itself is one of the great classics of ancient literature. They executed him anyway.

Whether you are a believer—fundamentalist, evangelical, moderate, liberal—or a nonbeliever, the Bible is the most significant book in the history of our civilization.

That's not how authors, ancient or modern, work. Authors write for readers in their own time and place.

Only literary cultures have a concern for exact replication of the facts "as they really are.

because it intends to lead readers astray. But in another sense plagiarism can be seen as the flip side of forgery. Forgers write their own words and claim they are the words of another; plagiarists take the words of another and claim they are their own.

a one-sentence definition of an entire literary genre, but if I were to take a stab for "apocalypses," it would be something like this: apocalypses are first-person narratives of highly symbolic visionary experiences that reveal heavenly secrets to explain earthly realities.

One of the interesting features of the book of Revelation is that unlike nearly all the other apocalypses it does not appear to be pseudonymous.

Jewish texts known as the Sibylline Oracles.

I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.

Pete said she didn't like to read, and he could never get tight with a girl who didn't like books.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

The author of so many evils," he said.

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

The things of the world fell by the wayside, you lost your speed and your eyesight and your fucking Electric Boogaloo, but literature was eternal

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order.

What do you read? I've never given a very satisfactory answer to that question, because it causes a kind of circuit overload in my brain. The easy answer ?Everything I can get my hands on!? is true enough, but not helpful.

a tall man of no age in faded, pegged jeans and a denim jacket. His pockets were stuffed with fifty different kinds of conflicting literature—pamphlets for all seasons, rhetoric for all reasons.