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Here are the quotes with the word literature in them. A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. — David Mitchell An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

-Ezra Pound

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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

-David Mitchell

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

-Raymond Chandler

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

-Vaclav Havel

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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

-Augusten Burroughs

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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

-Laura Marling

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Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

-Connie Willis

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

-Milton Friedman

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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

-Samuel Butler

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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

-Larry Wall

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

-C.S.Lewis

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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.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

-Samuel Butler

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

-Denis Diderot

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

-David Herbert Lawrence

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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

-Terry Pratchett

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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

-Toni Morrison

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

-Gertrude Stein

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

-Boris Pasternak

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

-Henry Adams

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

-William Ralph Inge

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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

-Billy Joel

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Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

-Jonathan Safran Foer

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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

-Michael Haneke

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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

-Philip Roth

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. — David Mitchell
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler

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