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Literature Quotes by Rita Dove
- For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand…
- Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is…
- I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved…
- Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get…
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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… — 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