Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite…

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from…

— Alain de Botton

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition.…

— Colson Whitehead

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…

— Helen Vendler

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

— Richard Flanagan

Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate.

— Robert Eggers

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. "Then”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are…

— Harold Bloom

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to…

— George Brandis

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman