#liter

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

#children #having #having children #life #literature

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#comprehension #great #lack #literally #meant

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#information #life #life and death #literally #matter

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! ↗

— Brian Lumley

#could #critic #literary #loves #only

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#facts #literature #science

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that. ↗

— Richard Donner

#approaching #because #blood #brando #doing