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Literature Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
- What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person…
- Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
- I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
- Literature usually begets literature.
- The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature…
- To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do…
- Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the…
- If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to…
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- 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