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«One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.»
Author: Gloria Naylor | About: Literature | Keywords: novel, resonances, Return to
«Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.»
«Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.»
«Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature»
«Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Literature, Writers | Keywords: be active, stillness
«One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party»
«My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.»
«Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side»
«Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast»
«No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Literature | Keywords: scenery

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