#liter

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#changes #cornell #county #ever #everybody

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#borrowed #borrowing #car #day #first

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#different #frankly #how #issues #last

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I literally hate working out. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#i #literally #out #working

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest