#literature

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#artists #celebrate #culture #dad #down

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#dreams #duty #literature #moral #moral duty

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#bad #beyond #good #ignorant #literature

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. ↗

— Joan Collins

#algebra #always #arithmetic #best #course

Postmodernism cost literature its audience. ↗

— Scott Turow

#cost #literature #postmodernism

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#art #earth #even #greater #literature

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#exactness #great #literature #purity #standard

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. ↗

— Rita Dove

#art #complained #could #fail #failed

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#been #city #first #i #literature