#literature

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

#music #poetry #music

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#brought #country #least #literature #out

Our literature is in great shape. ↗

— James Welch

#literature #our #shape

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#expression #humanity #literature #outlook #receives

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bible #humor #literature #most #singular

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin