#literature

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#experience

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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Our literature is in great shape. ↗

— James Welch

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