Quotes About Literature

She has never read any Gogol herself, but she is willing to place him on a shelf in her mind, along with Tennyson and Wordsworth

The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.