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Literature Quotes by F. Sionil Jose
- Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics…
- This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are -…
- Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
- You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my…
- Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
More Literature Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — 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… — Chinua Achebe
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — 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… — 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… — 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