Literature Quotes

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When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around… — 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. What's more difficult is to… — Chinua Achebe
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — 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 isn't simply a vehicle for… — 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 side of the business, possibly… — Russell Baker
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — 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
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms… — Henry Adams
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth… — Roland Barthes
I read Russian literature a lot. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your… — Ezra Taft Benson
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target… — Felix Adler

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