“The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.” HardCharacterUsedLiteratureFictionDrinkingNewspapersUsed To Be Author:Waverley Root
“When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.” WantKindArtHardLiteratureHonestProduceDecidedAbsolutesPressureFollowingI RealizedIdeologyTrendsIdeologicalAbsolute Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.” BookHardLightLiteratureSpeakLanguageForgetCryBecomingInstrumentsCreatorHearingProtestSecondsPredecessorsNew BooksLiterary Works Author:Ivan Klíma
“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.” EndsHardFactsLiteratureHalfFictionJudgmentPagesClaimsLocalsSufficientColourDullProseScoreDozenContrastNastyParallelsAtrocitiesExtravagantGrotesqueMagnificenceFarce Author:William Thomas Beckford
“To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.” HardLiteratureFancyConform Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.” TryingHardLiteratureFictionScience Fiction Author:Tom Shippey
“Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'” GivingWellsHardUseMightHappensLiteratureWeaponsDemocratTerroristRegionsSaddamHusseinWeaponryMight Use Author:Chris Matthews
“It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.” MadeHardLiteratureInvisibleVisible Author:Danielle Steel
“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.” WantWarEndsMatterHardEnoughLiteratureProcessLinesFrontsSoldierDestroying Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches
“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.” ThinkingHardDoneStoriesJobsLiteratureNovelRecordsFourMessShort StoryPermissionGood JobRequest Author:Leslie Charteris