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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the…

— Eavan Boland

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I…

— Elizabeth Olsen

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

— Phillips Brooks

VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

— Phillips Brooks

“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a…

— William Dean Howells

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films…

— Grace Potter

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

— Howard Jacobson

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

— Robert Duvall

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch