All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

quote by Milan Kundera
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

quote by Neil Gaiman
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Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound in ABC of Reading (1934)
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A nation without literature is a dumb nation.

classic quote by Miguel Delibes
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I need literature to understand the world.

quote by Alberto Manguel, translated by Dan Costinaş
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

quote by Jose Saramago
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To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

quote by Terri Guillemets
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Too much religion is just bad literary criticism.

aphorism by Scott F. Parker
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A Gimmick

gimmick literature this just it's
just is gimmick a this
is not literature it's just
not just a literature this
gimmick just a it's not
this is not literature it's

poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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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.

quote by Kenzaburo Oe
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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

quote by Lynn Abbey
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

quote by George Sand
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

quote by Howard Nemerov
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

quote by Paul Ricoeur
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

classic quote by William Butler Yeats
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A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

classic quote by Julien Green
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Poetry is the least artificial of the literary genres.

quote by Julio Martinez Mesanza, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Writings On The Wall

The writings on the wall brother
Your life is in your hands
Its up to you to see the writings on the wall.
It looks you in the eye mister
Its time we stand up tall
Go see and understand the writings on the wall.
Strange we hold on to things that have no grace
Or power
While death holds on to us much more with every
Passing hour
And all the time you thought it would last
Your life, your friends would always be
til theyre drunk away or shot away or die away
From you.
Theres nothing that you need sister
The lord is in you all
Life is designed to see the writings on the wall.
The musics in the air mothers
You may have heard it call
To you that you may see the writings on the wall.

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song performed by George Harrison
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Literature: writing that means more than it says.

aphorism by Scott F. Parker
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