#liter

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bring #consciousness #fairy #fairy tales #fantasy

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#been #familiar #hebrew #interest #judaism

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#country #did #literally #mother #store

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#because #corps #engineer #engineering #graduate

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#english #english literature #i #independent #literature