#liter

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald. ↗

— James Rollins

#author #blood #career #considered #fiction

Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#literary-criticism

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), to the astute decision that he should write in the manner of Odoevsky and Lazhechnikov. Fifty percent Odoevsky and fifty percent Lazhecknikov. This went over well, in part because readers, their memories mostly faulty, had forgotten poor Odoevsky (1803-1869) and poor Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), who died the same year, and in part because literary criticism, as keen as ever, neither extrapolated nor made the connection nor noticed a thing. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#literary-criticism

Literature is news that stays news. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#news #stays

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#days #destructive #get #had #i

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#alone #change #consider #film #i

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#degree #foreign #foreign languages #i #knowledge

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#got #had #i #into #laughed

I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise. ↗

— Debra Messing

#body #continue #dress #exercise #fit

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#chemicals #develop #film #friend #go