#liter

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All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)


Gaston Leroux


#love

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.


Roman Payne


#cash #credit-cards #digital-age #gold #literary-style

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.


Andrzej Wajda


#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing


Dejan Stojanovic


#always #darkness #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.


Jack Kerouac


#creativity #literary-criticism #self-expression #art

It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.


C.S. Lewis


#art

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.


D.H. Lawrence


#art #emotion #feeling #interpret #interpretation

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.


James Loeb


#freshness #generation #greek #grow #grow up

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.


Naguib Mahfouz


#arab #arab world #believe #consider #deserve

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.


Naguib Mahfouz


#could #feeling #first #first time #given