#liter

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#back #between #does #fake #film

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #literature #lived #more #people

The Bible is literature, not dogma. ↗

— George Santayana

#dogma #literature

Without literature my life would be miserable. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#literature #miserable #my life #without #would

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. ↗

— Rick Moody

#genre #literary #problem

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#arts #collision #complicated #literature #music

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. ↗

— Dave Sim

#literary #literary work #work

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following. ↗

— R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton

#metaphor #age

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders. ↗

— Tom Morello

#color #first #i #illinois #integrated