Quotes About Literature

POLEVOY (to Chaadaev)     But no doubt you have read Kukolnik's play? CHAADAEV     No … I started to read it, but after a while I seemed to lose interest, and I was still on the title. Stankevich

Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia

No mischlinge in journalism, the creative arts, the performing arts, literature . . . Culture is verboten.

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto a nuestras vidas.

Somos así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye .

You revel in the smoke that the words send up.

To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed.

What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal's "possession" as were its intellectual foundations. I was interested, as I had been... in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them. In fact I had started, casually like a game, keeping a file of such instances.

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

But the stillness was the sleep of swords.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn't limit my imagination; it expands it," Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

Milton's Paradise is quite available these days, if not in fact certainly as ordinary, unexceptionable desire.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Si hay un libro que te gustaría leer pero aún no se ha escrito, entonces debes escribirlo.