Books Quote by Michael Cunningham

“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

— Michael Cunningham

“Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to…

— Harlan Ellison

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

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