One reason I’ve never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I’m reading about look like. – Martin Filler
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. – Nick Harkaway
I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2. – Doreen Cronin
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally. – Gore Vidal
To a lot of us, literature’s eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing – like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. – Darin Strauss
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe. – Dario Fo
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. – Marek Hlasko
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! – D. H. Lawrence
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. – Morris Raphael Cohen
Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. – Melvyn Bragg
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature – be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere. – Michael Mando
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. – Gavin Rossdale
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. – Michael Cunningham
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn’t begin in any real sense until the 20th century. – Eleanor Catton
I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity. – Edith Pearlman
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature – science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. – Frederik Pohl
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn’t need colonialism or imperialism. It’s always been vibrant. – Marlon James
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope – at least as I understand the usage – is more: science used other than literally. – Edward M. Lerner
