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“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

“I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.”

People Writing Children Book Young Literature Wish Powerful Adults Children's Literature

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.”

Literature Wish Slave Be A Slave

Author:Philip Roth

“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Literature Wish Words Chinese Proverb

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.”

Giving Writing Literature House Wish Chance Wife Style Fortune Expensive Hostage

Author:Irwin Shaw

“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.”

Thinking Kind School Literature Left Wish Decision Gone University Knack English Literature

Author:Brendan Coyle

“If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.”

Ifs Trying Mind Children Art Helping Literature Wish Taste Our Children Train

Book:Vegetarianism and Occultism

Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism

“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.”

“Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”

Literature Wish Hell Different Meanings

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“Wishing of all employments is the worst”

Literature Wish Worst Employment

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job