Democracy and happiness don't produce great literature.

quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

quote by Harold Brodkey
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

quote by Jose Bergamin
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

quote by G.K. Chesterton
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

quote by Mordecai Richler
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All literature is gossip.

quote by Truman Capote
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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

quote by Mark Haddon
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Oh The Poems

OH THE POEMS AND THE POEMS AND THE POEMS

Oh the poems and the poems and the poems
Oh the love of Literature
Oh all that stuff
I have given my life to-
Words and meanings and feelings
Pages and pages and pages –

What it is all this literary life for?
When out the window out the door
With our eyes we see in an instant other worlds other dreams?

I don’t know and I will never know
And Literature is certainly far more than I can say it is-

Oh the poems and this poem and this day turning grey
And all my life old and old and more old and more old-

Oh why oh why oh why

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poem by Shalom Freedman
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

quote by Thomas Carlyle
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

quote by Alice Hoffman
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Literature precedes genre.

quote by Rick Moody
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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

quote by Thomas Keneally
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Novel writing wrecks homes.

quote by C.S. Forester
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Remarks are not literature.

quote by Gertrude Stein
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Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

quote by Leslie Fiedler
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

quote by Marilyn Hacker
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

quote by Oscar Wilde
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All literature is political.

quote by LeVar Burton
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

quote by Peter Straub
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Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

quote by Robert Redford
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