"The writer studies literature, not the world." — Annie Dillard

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• When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
• Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
• I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.… — Chinua Achebe
• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
• The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
• The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
• Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
• I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel… — Margaret Atwood
• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
• There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial… — Russell Baker
• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the… — J. G. Ballard
• It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville

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