Celebrate Quote by Ian Mcewan

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from…

— Alain de Botton

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition.…

— Colson Whitehead

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes…

— Helen Vendler

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

— Richard Flanagan

Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate.

— Robert Eggers

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. "Then”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are…

— Harold Bloom

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro