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«What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Reading,
Writing
| Keywords:
condition, literature, reads, transforms, wrote
«Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.»
Author: Ellen Glasgow
(Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Violence
| Keywords:
commands, crude, cruder, distorted
«What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.»
«When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.»
Author: James Earl Jones
| About:
Language,
Literature,
Mind,
Reading
| Keywords:
drama, dramas, human mind, sermons, Speeches
«What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.»
Author: John Cheever
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
comprehend, hideous, inform, nuclear, nuclear power
«To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Literature,
Strength,
Vision
| Keywords:
absorptive, factual, fictional, perceptive
«When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.»
«Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
End Of The Century, Russian literature, twentieth, twentieth century
«What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Sex
| Keywords:
gap, in ordinary, opening, pornographic, prevents, wedge, wedges
«The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.»
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