#literature

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#both #complex #concrete #game #literature

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#best part #careful #culture #follow #given

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#concerned #i #literature #novelist #should

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#literature #possible #sf #theoretically

Journalism is literature in a hurry. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#journalism #literature

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

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Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience