#liter

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#being #boy #enjoyed #i #last

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. ↗

— Yann Martel

#gives #great #hard #literary #literary work

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#claimed #dead #followers #had #himself

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#alive #become #building #defining #earth

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#best #best way #change #climate #climate change

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#became #began #bubble #commented #contained

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation