“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.” PeopleKnowsWritingLiteratureWrittenHappened Author:Norman MacCaig
“I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.” ThinkingLiteratureHappenedPhilosophicPretentiousness Book:Commonplace Book Source: Commonplace Book
“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.” WorldYearsFirstsTwoLiteratureLanguageKnownHappenedEventsPressesWesternDrivingDestroyedGreekEmpiresScholarDocumentsPrintingWestern WorldEpochPrinting PressConstantinople Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.” LittlesHas BeensSaidLiteratureWrittenHappenedFragmentsFractions Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.” LongBigsLiteratureOpportunityHappenedStudentsColdLong TimeBelieverContemporaryStorytellingContemporary Literature Author:John Green
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.” PeopleLiteratureHappenedSelf Deception Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.” WritingTryingIdeasBodyLiteratureLanguageTermHappenedTeachingBreakthroughCollaboratingLove Teaching Author:Lidia Yuknavitch