#literature

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#different #frankly #how #issues #last

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #japanese #literature #models #my own

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#culture #games #high #i #including

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#easy #easy reading #few #great #greek

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#clearly #conceived #doubtless #great #grows

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #christopher #columbus #discount #even

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny