#liter

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. ↗

— David Eagleman

#american literature #british #i #literature #majored

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #eulogy #lies #literary #literary men

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. ↗

— Scott Turow

#being #books #could #credit #had

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#because #began #black #black community #black family

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#confidence #department #got #had #heads

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. ↗

— Glenn Close

#gone #gone with the wind #had #hara #i

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#credit #david #david lynch #day #gave