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Literature Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of…
- The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
- Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
- Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every…
- As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to…
- American literature has always been immigrant.
- It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the…
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I…
- The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who…
- Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find…
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