#liter

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

Bad literature is a form of treason. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#form #literature #treason

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#almost #difficult #hit #home #home run

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.' ↗

— Brooke Burns

#been #bright #did #dive #done

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #express #expression #feel

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love. ↗

— Daphne Kalotay

#love #life

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #day #dollar #globalization #illiterate

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#education #information-literacy #information-management #learning #literacy

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#ads #coded #dorm #ever #facebook