Literature Quotations | Page 3
Literature Quotes from:
- Mason Cooley
- Henry David Thoreau
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- E M Forster
- Gertrude Stein
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- D H Lawrence
- Edwin Louis Cole
- Honore De Balzac
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- Aeschylus
- Bryant H Mcgill
- Franz Kafka
- George Eliot
- Jessica Savitch
- H L Mencken
- Lord Byron
- Charles Caleb Colton
- John Ruskin
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Art Quotes
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.
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Alienated Quotes
You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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Countless Quotes
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.