Context Quote by Andrea Hirata

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to…

— Franz Kafka

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be…

— Peter Weir

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

— Wole Soyinka

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

— Dave Sim

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm…

— Andrea Hirata

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive…

— Philip Kitcher

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible…

— Stendhal

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the…

— Joyce Carol Oates