Literary History Quotes
11 Literary History quotes by 11 unique authors
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition…
— James Russell Lowell
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over…
— Tillie Olsen
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,…
— George Saintsbury
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Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as…
— Theodora Goss
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a…
— Elif Batuman
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You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
— William Landay
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The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write)…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
— Heinrich Heine
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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever…
— David Cronenberg
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet,…
— Deb Caletti
Who Wrote These Literary History Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Literary History Quotes as follows: