World Literature Quotes
- The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
- I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature. — Edward Abbey
- My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture… — Mo Yan
- The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam… — Peter Gizzi
- Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions… — Edward Abbey
- There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only… — Len G. Murray
- National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe