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“I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.”

Thinking Form Literature Enjoy Expression Cinema Novelists Love Literature

Author:Julia Leigh

“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.”

People Giving Different Would Be Literature Interesting Written Childhood Window Motherhood Different Peoples Really Interesting

Author:Natalie Merchant

“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.”

People Knows Writing Literature Written Happened

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

Way Years Sometimes Helping Happens Lasts Passion Literature Particular Poet Great Passion

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.”

Literature Impossible

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.”

Thinking Way Eye Literature Names Particular Poet Pages Boring Dry Speakers

Author:Norman MacCaig

“And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.”

Thinking Literature Taught Poetry Is

Author:Norman MacCaig

“But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.”

Persons Seems Jobs Literature Particular

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Literature

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.”

Book Literature

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”

Wells Said Literature Invention Mimicry

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.”

Years Literature American Poetry

Author:Norman MacCaig

“People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.”

People Long Literature Interest Share Havens These Days

Author:Norman MacCaig

“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Facts Literature Seeing Absolutes Moved Baloney

Author:Norman MacCaig

“It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.”

Persons Literature Particular Conversation Breathing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.”

Ifs May Shows Dream Reality Suffering Literature Compromise American Dream Best Work Tainted Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”

World Culture Literature Wish Novel Serious Reflection Mere Consumers Tokyo Subculture Consumer Culture Serious Work

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.”

Literature International Height

Author:Irving Langmuir

“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”

Ifs Literature Figures Shoes

Author:Jim Leach

“It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.”

People Should Young Literature Grows Wealth Quality Growing Up Generations Pity Variety Greek Latin Our Generation Freshness

Author:James Loeb

“Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.”

America Literature Five Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Clarke Peters

“Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.”

Literature Process Theory Sake Discouraging Parody Jargon Arcane Literary Theory

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.”

Ifs Long I Can Stories Film Literature Term Fantasy Realistic Allegory Synthetic

Author:Manuel Puig

“I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.”

Want I Can Literature Names Rocks Rock And Roll Suspicious

Author:Manuel Puig

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

Way Shows Literature Individual Environment Our Lives Unconscious

Author:Manuel Puig

“In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?”

People Writing Country Literature Weight Ancient Heavy France Outstanding Proust Heavy Weights

Author:Manuel Puig

“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.”

Writing Film Certain Literature My Own Cases Reader Difficulty Limitation Viewers Concentrating

Author:Manuel Puig

“I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.”

Trying Character Problem Literature Special Genesis

Author:Manuel Puig

“I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”

Kind Has Beens Book Literature Study Written Havens Length Academic

Author:Manuel Puig

“I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.”

Literature Novel Written Convince

Author:Manuel Puig

“Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.”

Thinking Writing Literature Reader Always Thinking

Author:Manuel Puig

“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.”

Ifs Needs Universe Literature Views Impossible Creator Point Of View Internals

Author:Manuel Puig

“My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.”

Writing Literature Fantasy Memoir Masterpiece Old Days

Author:Manuel Puig

“My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.”

Literature Aspiration Tropics

Author:Manuel Puig

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.”

People Writing Character Stories Literature Enjoy Fiction Great Literature

Author:Kathy Reichs

“A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.”

Philosophy Christian Literature Issues Relate Features Addresses Agendas Christian Faith Distinctive Christian Philosophy

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Turns Literature Understanding Information Reader Benefits Tasks Method Appreciation Helpful

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.”

Different Philosophy Literature Teaching Fields Masters Prophet Islamic Sufi Turkeys Istanbul Hadith Exegesis

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”

Past Form Literature Emotional Intellectual Creeds Castes

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I know of no better name than Anarchism.”

Knows Literature Names Anarchism

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

People Believe Stills Country Literature Numbers Economic Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Eras Marxism Economic Systems Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Herbert Read

“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”

Ifs Knows Book Enough Might Reading Literature Term Vampire Gateways

Author:Josh Radnor

“I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Stories Literature Written Love Story Written Word

Author:Nora Roberts

“I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.”

Writing Believe Wells Moments Literature Pleasure Don't Believe

Author:Nora Roberts

“I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.”

Long Literature Typical

Author:Nora Roberts

“I need to write to be happy.”

Needs Writing Literature

Author:Nora Roberts

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