#literature

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

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

#compromise #editing #go #half #i

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #men #minded #opinions #others

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#could #i #indeed #knew #literature

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#anything #arts #being #belief #devotes

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #art #attitude #audience #because

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #bad #began #careful #experience

Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#co-workers #common #cultural #friends #literature