#liter

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#ends #every #form #half #india

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#been #behind #body #closing #door

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#coaches #columnist #dad #football #general

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#before #behind #car #cars #difficult

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#constantly #could #go #hair #heels

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#art #believe #close #course #exactly

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#genre #like #literary #many #much