#liter

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.


Mao Zedong


#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.


John Updike


#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.


Ben Gibbard


#broke #even #find #get #getting

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.


Marilyn Hacker


#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.


Marilyn Hacker


#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.


Marilyn Hacker


#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.


Mark Haddon


#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.


Mark Haddon


#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.


Soichiro Honda


#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.


P. J. Harvey


#art #art college #became #been #channeled