#liter

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#deserve #feel #good #good movie #hard

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!' ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#because #begins #boring #conversation #days

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #discouragement #encouragement #family #fiction

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#american literature #anyone #bad #been #i

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#ad #been #could #debt #enough

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #literature #lived #more #people

The Bible is literature, not dogma. ↗

— George Santayana

#dogma #literature

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#between #creation #literary #political #political activity