Books Quote by T. MacLaughlin

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy…

— Alan Bishop

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across.…

— Renni Browne

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes…

— Simin Behbahani

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own…

— Amish Tripathi

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is…

— Northrop Frye

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which…

— Robert Fitzgerald

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

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

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

— Ellen Glasgow