#liter

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. ↗

— William Joyce

#called #career #consultation #did #fact

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#piece #process #script

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#equivalent #evening #literary #sequins

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#enjoy #everything #except #how #knew

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#any #defined #described #down #far

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#concept #documented #domination #industry #known

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#casting #dallas #days #each #few

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. ↗

— Bob Kane

#although #bill #came #collaborated #concepts